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Dallas death metal unit Decomposed channel the dense, murky brutality of early American death metal with a Texas-sized heaviness. Since 2020 they've been stacking slabs of guttural riffage in the tradition of the genre's most uncompromising forebears.
Hailing from southwestern Connecticut, this Decomposed project mines familiar death metal territory with a focus on atmosphere as much as brute force. A regional underground entry in the long tradition of bands sharing this grimly evocative name.
Philadelphia's Decomposed carry on the East Coast death metal lineage with a sound rooted in the genre's ugliest, most unpolished impulses. Their Philly pedigree places them in a city with a long, underappreciated extreme metal history.
Monsey, New York's Decomposed bring a rough-hewn, straightforward death metal attack to the greater New York underground. Low-fidelity and uncompromising, they prioritize putrefaction over production.
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.
Decomposing Entity is a death metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, active since 2009. The band deliver brutal death metal rooted in the Croatian underground extreme metal scene.
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.
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