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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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Newsflash (2023)
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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.
Decayor is a death/doom metal band from Donegal, Ireland, active since 2009. The band craft slow, heavy death-doom from the northwest of Ireland.
Decease is a death metal band from Rakvere, Estonia, active since 2013. They play crushing death metal from the Estonian underground.
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.
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Mount Pleasant death metal outfit formed in 2023, Decedent arrives already steeped in the rotting mid-western tradition of brutality over melody. Putrefying riffs and relentless blastwork mark this young Michigan act as one to watch.
Deceitful End is a melodic death metal band from Madrid, Spain, active since 2014. They deliver powerful melodic death metal from the Spanish capital.
Deceitome is a death metal band from Tallinn, Estonia, formed in 2016. They deliver deceptive, heavy death metal from Estonia's capital.
Pomona's Deceive spent their early years dealing in death/thrash crossfire before pivoting toward a darker blackened death sound — a natural evolution for a band forged in Southern California's uncompromising underground. Over a decade on, their sound remains as caustic as the Inland Empire streets that bred them.
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