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Defying Plague is a death metal band from Lodi, in Lombardy, Italy, formed in 2022. Their debut album 'Leviathan of Rot,' released through AdNoctem Records, explores themes of corruption, environmental destruction, and cosmic horror across ten tracks of modern death metal.
Sacramento's Degeneracy launched in 2022 with brutal death metal in their blood — a style that fits the California Central Valley's history of breeding relentless, no-mercy extreme music. Dense, suffocating, and technically brutal, they aim squarely at the gut with the kind of low-end punishment that defines the genre at its most uncompromising.
Denton, Texas crossover act Degenerate have been fusing thrash, hardcore, and punk energy since 2016, plugging into the North Texas underground that's long been fertile ground for aggressive, genre-blurring music. Their sound hits fast and mean — the kind of crossover that owes equal debts to DRI and Slayer — and lives or dies by its ferocity in a live room.
Chicago's Degenerate Synapse formed in 2023 at the intersection of death metal's methodical brutality and grindcore's deranged brevity, a combination that suits the city's long tradition of extreme music pushing technical extremes. Short, violent, and ruthlessly efficient, they pack maximum damage into minimum runtime.
Degenerated is a death metal band from Reggio di Calabria, Italy, formed in 2014. The project delivers punishing death metal from the southernmost tip of the Italian peninsula.
Degenerhate is a death metal and grindcore band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2014. The project fuses death metal's crushing heaviness with grindcore's blistering speed in a relentless Roman extreme metal attack.
Degial is a death metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2015. The project delivers dark and occult death metal from the Swedish underground.
This Degloved — distinct from the Raleigh noise/black metal outfit sharing their name — formed in 2020 operating in the death metal and deathcore space, where breakdowns and blastbeats coexist in controlled devastation. With no listed location, they're an entity defined entirely by their sound: heavy, downtuned, and engineered to flatten.
Degollador is an epic death metal band from Sabadell, Spain, active since 2011. They deliver grandiose death metal with epic scope from the Catalan industrial city.
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