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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Green Bay progressive metalcore act Deciphering the Zodiac builds songs from the ground up with an ear for both atmosphere and complexity, pushing beyond the genre's conventional boundaries. Since 2017 they've been among Wisconsin's more thoughtful heavy acts, favoring intricate composition over blunt force.
Aurora's Decline of Sanity blend the slow, suffocating weight of stoner metal with death metal's guttural fury — a hazy, punishing combination that arrived in 2024 from Colorado's high-altitude underground. Equal parts skull-crush and slow burn.
Deconstructed is a groove metal and metalcore band from Rosario, Argentina, whose lineup includes vocalist Walter Magnavachi, guitarists Andrés Ludmer and Guillermo Sarasibar, bassist Bruno Perine, and drummer Bruno Rositto. The band cites heavy influences from Pantera, Meshuggah, Sepultura, and Lamb of God, channeling a crushing, riff-driven sound rooted in Rosario's underground heavy music scene.
Salt Lake City metalcore act Decontaminate have refined their sound since 2011, bringing a punishing, groove-heavy approach to a genre that rewards both technicality and brute force. Utah's extreme underground gets no purer expression.
Dedroll is a metalcore act from Varna, Bulgaria, formed in 2015 by vocalist Kaloyan Getov and guitarist Martin Georgiev. Their debut album 'The Dark Charm Of Life' was recorded at a private studio near Golden Sands, delivering emotionally charged heavy metal with prominent lead guitar work.
Formed in Boston in 2022, Deep Fear bring a metalcore attack sharpened on the city's hardcore tradition — urgent, suffocating, and built on a hair-trigger temper.
Defactorial is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Kyiv, Ukraine. The project blends melodic death metal with metalcore from the Ukrainian capital.
Maine's Defined Perspective arrived in 2024 fusing heavy metal, thrash, and metalcore in a state where extreme metal has to survive harsh winters and an even harsher lack of infrastructure. Their genre-blending approach reflects the pragmatism of a band that plays what they want without worrying about scene politics.
Defy the Laws of Tradition is a metalcore band from Nuremberg, Germany, active since 2009. They have spent over fifteen years forging aggressive metalcore from the Franconian underground.
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