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Delete the Mass is a grindcore and death metal act from Athens, Greece, formed in 2009. Their releases include a 2012 demo and the album Maza, channeling the ferocity of grindcore blended with death metal heaviness.
Deleterious plays technical black/death metal from Utrecht, formed in 2021 and delivering the harmful, destructive impact their name promises through precision-engineered extreme metal. Their technical approach adds surgical accuracy to the raw aggression of their dual-genre foundation.
Deletion is a black and death metal band from Molndal and Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2016. The project merges black metal with death metal from the west coast.
Newark, Ohio death metal act Deliberalize formed in 2024, bringing blunt aggression to central Ohio's underground. Their name alone signals a confrontational posture, and the music follows with direct, riff-driven death metal that eschews technical showmanship in favor of sheer impact.
Deliberate Miscarriage is a death metal band from Wales, formed in 2020. They deliver visceral death metal from the Welsh underground.
Delight to Divide is a brutal death metal band from Schwerin, Germany, formed in 2022. They carve through with unrelenting brutality and surgical precision.
Delirant Chaotic Sound is a death metal, metalcore, and thrash metal band from Monza, Italy, formed in 2016. The project channels chaotic and aggressive extreme metal energy from the Lombardy scene.
Washington state's Deliriant Nerve formed in 2022 at the intersection of grindcore's brevity and death metal's brutality. Sharing a Bandcamp handle with Philadelphia's Deliriant, the band channels the Pacific Northwest's extreme music community into blasts of grinding intensity and raw, punishing velocity.
Delirium Silence plays doom/death metal from Yakutsk, one of the coldest cities on Earth, active since 2015. Their extreme sub-Arctic location — where temperatures plunge below minus 40 — lends genuine, bone-deep cold to compositions already steeped in frozen despair.
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