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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Schenectady deathcore act Declension arrived in 2022 trafficking in dense, down-tuned death metal attack bolstered by the mechanical precision of modern deathcore. Their name implies collapse — and the music delivers on the promise.
Decline is a band from Bilbao, Spain, active since 2010, whose sound evolved from industrial/gothic metal into death metal. Their evolution reflects a journey toward increasingly extreme heaviness.
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.
Aurora's Decline of Sanity blend the slow, suffocating weight of stoner metal with death metal's guttural fury — a hazy, punishing combination that arrived in 2024 from Colorado's high-altitude underground. Equal parts skull-crush and slow burn.
Decline of Society plays melodic death metal from Belgium, active since 2013 and channeling social critique through the Gothenburg-influenced template of harmonized guitars and harsh vocals. Their politically charged name frames their melodic death metal as commentary on civilization's deterioration.
Declined is a technical death metal band from Crehange, France, formed in 2015. They play technically demanding death metal from Lorraine.
Declínio is a black/death metal trio from Assis, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2022, with members drawn from the bands GURO, REIKETSU, and YALDABAOTH. The band blends influences from grind, doom, and post-metal alongside extreme metal, channeling themes of mental chaos and death. They released the album "Natureza Estatal" in 2022 and a second record, "Talking With Ghosts," on their Bandcamp page.
Decollated is a death/thrash metal band from Exeter, England, formed in 2017. They deliver beheading death/thrash from Devon.
Los Angeles death metal act Decomposed traffic in the putrid, old-school sound that defined the genre's early years, recasting it with a West Coast griminess. Formed in 2020, they keep their influences rotting and their riffs churning.
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