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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Tacoma's Decline of Order bulldoze through a dense tangle of brutal death metal and deathcore, built for maximum crushing impact. Since their 2022 formation they've pushed the genre's appetite for punishment to its logical extreme.
Minnesota brutal death metal project Decomposed Cadaveric Remains live up to the name — churning out dense, gore-soaked extremity since 2021 with no regard for subtlety. This is Midwest brutality taken to its most literal conclusion.
Decomposed Torso is a brutal death metal band from Palma, Mallorca, Spain, formed in 2016. They deliver visceral brutality from the Balearic Islands.
Decomposition of Entrails plays slam/brutal death metal from Kyshtym in the Urals, active since 2013. Their anatomically graphic name — describing the putrefaction of internal organs — matches the genre's most viscerally extreme sonic palette.
Decompossession is a brutal death metal band from Dunfermline, Scotland, formed in 2024. They deliver decomposing brutality from Fife.
Decraniated is a brutal death metal act from Bergamo, formed in 2019 and specializing in the most violent and technically demanding corners of the genre. Their name evokes decapitation, matching a sonic approach that aims to separate heads from shoulders through sheer sonic force.
Decrepit Depravity is a brutal death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2010. The project delivers punishing brutal death metal.
Los Angeles brutal death metal act Decrepit Lunacy traffick in the kind of dense, relentless punishment that the genre's most devoted listeners live for, bringing a West Coast edge to a style born in Florida swamps and New York boroughs. Formed in 2020, they waste no time.
Decrepit Womb is a brutal death metal band from Manchester, England, active since 2012. They deliver womb-ripping brutality from the Mancunian underground.
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