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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Dejected is a melodic death metal band from Castrop-Rauxel in the Ruhr Valley, active since 2018 and channeling the post-industrial landscape of Germany's rust belt into emotionally charged, melody-driven compositions. Their name captures the despondent undercurrent that runs through their music despite its melodic accessibility.
Dejected Mass is a death/doom metal band from Mannheim, Germany, formed in 2015. They combine the crushing weight of doom with death metal's aggression for a sound steeped in despair.
Kansas City's Dejecter arrived in 2023 dragging death metal's rotting carcass through the swamp. Their death/sludge hybrid smothers crushing riffs in murk and slow-burning dread, channeling the Kansas City underground's appetite for music that punishes as much as it suffocates.
Dekant is a post-black/doom/death metal band from Inverness, Scotland, formed in 2019. They pour decanted extreme metal from the Scottish Highlands.
Dekapitation formed in 2022 and deal in no-frills death metal built for destruction. Direct and unadorned, the band strips the genre back to its most violent fundamentals — grinding riffs, cavernous production, and relentless forward momentum.
Dekathexis is a death metal/deathcore band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2023. They merge death metal's technicality with deathcore's punishing breakdowns.
Dekrepitation is a brutal death metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2017. They deliver visceral, bone-crushing brutality from the depths of the underground.
Norfolk, Virginia's Dekulakization arrived in 2022 with a brutal death metal attack named after Soviet-era forced collectivization — a title that sets the tone for music that is blunt, historically aware, and without mercy. Rooted in the Norfolk underground, the band traffics in churning low-tuned punishment with violent rhythmic precision.
Tucson's Del Mal are a fresh death metal outfit formed in 2024, drawing on the arid brutality of the Arizona desert. Their name gestures toward malevolence in Spanish, and the music matches the harshness of their Southwest surroundings with grinding, no-nonsense death metal aggression.
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