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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Yonkers' Decapitating Devastation emerged in 2014 as a straightforward proposition: brutal death metal with maximum density and zero compromise. New York's history of no-nonsense extremity courses through every pulverizing riff.
Decapitation of Nuns is a slam/brutal death metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2020. Their provocative name matches their ultra-brutal slam death metal.
Fresh out of the Appalachian High Country in Vilas, North Carolina, Decarnate arrived in 2025 with a slam/brutal death metal attack that sounds anything but rural. Churning, groove-locked slams delivered with the unhinged physicality the subgenre demands.
Joliet, Illinois's Decayed Humanity arrived just recently as a slam/brutal death outfit committed to maximum low-end impact and surgical groove. Chicago's satellite cities have always punched above their weight in extreme metal, and Decayed Humanity continues that tradition.
Chicago's Decaying Morality announced themselves in 2024 with a brutal death/grindcore assault that hits like the city's El train at 2 AM — loud, relentless, and indifferent to your suffering. A new addition to the Windy City's already formidable extreme metal tradition.
Decaying Purity is a brutal death metal band from Kadikoy, Istanbul, Turkey, formed in 2006. The project delivers punishing brutal death metal from the Bosphorus city.
Deceased Noise is a brutal death metal band from Radom, Poland, formed in 2025. The project delivers punishing brutal death metal from the Mazovia region.
Deceptionist is a technical and brutal death metal band from Rome, recognized for their intricate, surgically precise approach to extreme metal. Their compositions weave dizzying time signatures and sweep-picked arpeggios into a framework of crushing, rhythmically complex brutality.
Decimated Humans push brutal and slam death metal into progressive territory — song structures that shift and fracture beneath pummeling rhythms and cavernous vocals. Formed in 2014, the North Carolina outfit occupies a singular niche at the intersection of surgical precision and bludgeoning force.
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