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Floral Park, New York's Dehumanized are a brutal death metal institution — their Metal-Archives number (2241) marks them as veterans who predate the internet-era scene, even if this current iteration formed in 2016. Rooted in the greater New York brutal death tradition that spawned acts like Suffocation, they deliver dense, technically demanding brutality with a lineage behind it.
Gilbert, Arizona's Dehumanizer blend thrash and death metal in the sun-scorched Phoenix suburb that's become a genuine breeding ground for extreme music in the desert Southwest. Formed in 2018 and operating through the Ozone Morte Bandcamp, they bring a gritty, mid-paced aggression to a genre combination that has always thrived on heat and hostility.
Dehumanizzer is a death metal band from Vinnytsia, Ukraine, formed in 2015. The project delivers aggressive death metal from central Ukraine.
Dallas, Texas progressive death metal act Dei Aemeth have been crafting ambitious, technically demanding music since 2012, drawing from a city with one of the most sophisticated extreme metal underground scenes in the American South. Their sound fuses death metal's brutality with progressive metal's appetite for complexity — expansive arrangements that never lose sight of impact.
Dei Gratia is a death/groove metal band from southern Denmark, formed in 2015. They merge death metal's brutality with groove metal's rhythmic power.
Boston's Deicidal Twilight work in the slow, catastrophic tradition of death/doom — a subgenre that suits New England's long winters and the bleak, gothic weight of the region's cultural history. Formed in 2017, they cultivate an oppressive atmosphere through tempos that drag like granite, layering death metal ferocity beneath the doom's suffocating, slow-rolling darkness.
Tampa's Deicide are one of the definitive names in death metal — built on Glen Benton's vitriolic anti-Christian worldview, their early-'90s records like the debut and "Legion" helped establish Florida death metal as a global force. Decades on, they remain one of the genre's most controversial and enduring acts, synonymous with the aggressive Satanic intensity that put Tampa on the extreme metal map.
Los Angeles' Deified have been weaving progressive and melodic death metal together since 2014, operating in a city where technical ambition and raw extremity have long competed and coexisted in the underground. Their sound bridges Scandinavian melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with a more progressive, arrangement-minded approach that sets them apart from straightforward melodeath acts.
Deified Shreds is a death metal band from Athens, Greece, founded in 2018 by Ares, featuring guitarists George and Kostas, bassist Nick, and vocalist John. Their 2021 debut Overcoming the Fractal Deception delivers four tracks of 1990s American-influenced death metal with philosophical and existential lyrical themes.
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