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Deforeskination is a death metal band from Albstadt, Germany, active since 2013. They deliver raw, uncompromising death metal from the Swabian underground.
Deforma is a death metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2020. The project delivers aggressive death metal from the Ukrainian capital.
Deformachine is a death and thrash metal band from Alessandria, Italy, formed in 2020. The project combines the brutality of death metal with thrash metal's velocity in a devastating Italian extreme metal assault.
Deformation Guaranteed is a death, doom, and gothic metal band originally from Remich, Luxembourg, later based in Merzig, formed in 2020. The project blends death and doom metal's heaviness with gothic atmospheres from the Luxembourg-Germany border region.
Hailing from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Deforme have been grinding out raw, no-frills death metal since 2014 in a city not typically celebrated for extreme music — which makes their persistence all the more tenacious. Their sound draws from the classic death metal tradition: heavy, down-tuned, and unrelenting, with no concessions to accessibility.
Deformed is a death metal band from Schlüchtern, Germany, formed in 2019. They play twisted, brutal death metal with a focus on sonic extremity.
Massachusetts-based Deformed by God emerged in 2020 weaving together black metal's corrosive atmosphere, death metal's brutality, and the thick, dragging weight of sludge into something genuinely unsettling. The convergence of these three styles gives their music an oppressive, suffocating quality — crushing tempos locked beneath waves of caustic noise.
Deformed Cadaver is a brutal death metal/goregrind band from Landshut, Germany, emerging in 2025. They push the boundaries of extreme music with ultra-heavy brutality and goregrind's visceral excess.
Los Angeles death/thrash outfit Deformem arrived in 2023 with the kind of blunt aggression the city's underground has always nurtured in its rehearsal spaces and dive bars. Their approach fuses the riff-forward momentum of thrash with the guttural, surgical attack of death metal — young and hungry, with plenty still to prove.
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