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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Tacoma's Deboned has been running death metal and grindcore through the same blender since 2013, producing short, pulverizing tracks that owe as much to Repulsion as they do to any Pacific Northwest tradition. Efficient, brutal, and mercifully brief.
Waterloo, Iowa's DeBowers Monstrosity has been generating black/death/grind chaos since 2020, bringing the heartland's no-nonsense aggression to a genre hybrid that doesn't stop for breath. Monstrous by name, monolithic by nature.
A collision of death metal brutality, metalcore aggression, and grindcore speed, Debtors emerged from the Chicago/LA underground in 2020 with no patience for genre boundaries. Their sound hits like a freight train that changes tracks mid-collision.
Decapity is a death/thrash metal and grindcore band from Mid-Wales, formed in 2021. They deliver decapitating extremity from the Welsh hills.
Michigan's Decay Within tears through grindcore and death metal with the kind of short, sharp brutality that the Detroit area underground has always done well. Since 2018, they've been proving that Oxford, Michigan can produce extremity as violent as anywhere.
Decaying Delights is an industrial metal/grindcore band from Vantaa, Finland, emerging in 2026. They blend industrial harshness with grindcore's frenetic extremity.
Chicago's Decaying Morality announced themselves in 2024 with a brutal death/grindcore assault that hits like the city's El train at 2 AM — loud, relentless, and indifferent to your suffering. A new addition to the Windy City's already formidable extreme metal tradition.
A grindcore project born in 2025 with no fixed location and nothing but speed and hostility to offer, Decayment represents the genre in its purest, most portable form. Short songs, short patience, and absolutely no interest in your attention span.
Decrabitation is a death metal/grindcore band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2022. They deliver ferocious blasts of death metal and grindcore with relentless intensity.
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