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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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This is Black Stone Cherry's RSD album. The band really likes it. (2025)
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New Jersey's DepraVation have been stoking the furnaces of no-frills death metal since 2012, their Garden State origin lending the music a direct, industrial quality stripped of any Southern gothic or West Coast sunshine. Raw, focused, and uninterested in trends, they represent the kind of workmanlike underground brutality that sustains the genre's foundations.
Depraved is a death metal and grindcore band from Sofia, Bulgaria, channeling raw aggression through a prolific run of demos, splits, and EPs. Rooted in the DIY underground, their output favors short, violent bursts of extremity over polish.
Manning, South Carolina's Depraved Flesh are among the newer voices in the South's death metal underground, forming in 2023 with a sound that embraces the classic extremity of the genre without apology. Small-town South Carolina proving fertile ground for a band committed to the purest strain of the form.
Lebanon, Pennsylvania's Depraved Harbinger have been forging death metal in the rural heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country since 2014, a region more associated with pastoral quiet than with brutal riffing. Their music carries the stubbornness and directness of the region's character — heavy, deliberate, and built to last.
Depraved Will plays melodic deathcore from Eindhoven, active since 2020 and operating from the Dutch city that hosts the annual Dynamo metal festival. Their corrupted-willpower name drives compositions that balance melodic hooks with punishing breakdowns.
Depravement is a black/death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2019. They deliver depraved extreme metal from the Finnish capital.
A slam death metal band from Lower Austria, formed in 2020, whose releases include 'Cannibalistic Decimation,' 'Annihilation of Increasing Pain,' and 'Infected by Sexuality.' The band operates in the brutal, low-tuned tradition of European slam with uncompromising graphic themes.
Depressed is an old-school death metal band from Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil, originally formed in 1998, with activity resuming around 2012. Signed to Black Lion Records, the band released their debut album Afterlife in Darkness in 2015 and followed it with Beyond the Putrid Fiction in 2019, both marked by fast blasting rhythms, thrashy riffs, and frenzied solos.
Depressed Mode is a symphonic death/doom metal band from Pori, Finland, active since 2007. They craft grandiose, melancholic compositions that blend symphonic beauty with crushing doom.
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