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Fresh out of the Appalachian High Country in Vilas, North Carolina, Decarnate arrived in 2025 with a slam/brutal death metal attack that sounds anything but rural. Churning, groove-locked slams delivered with the unhinged physicality the subgenre demands.
Decathect is a progressive black/death metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, active since 2013. They push extreme metal into cerebral, progressive territory with ambitious compositions.
Hammond, Indiana's Decay After Death has been fusing thrash and punk since 2010, operating in that grimy no-man's-land where the two genres share the same D-beat and bad attitude. Chicago's industrial shadow looms large over their noise.
St. Louis's Decay Crawler has been crawling through black metal's underworld since 2013, building an atmosphere thick with the Midwest's particular brand of isolation and dread. Their music moves like rot spreading through wood — slow, relentless, and irreversible.
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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.
Bay Area thrash veterans Decayed have been churning out speed and aggression since 1992, outlasting most of their contemporaries and remaining active while the genre cycled through waves of revival. Three decades in, the riffs are still as vicious as ever.
Out of Anderson in Northern California's Shasta County, Decayed Existence has been delivering straight-up death metal since 2018 with no frills and no pretense. Remote geography doesn't dull their intensity — if anything, the isolation sharpens it.
Joliet, Illinois's Decayed Humanity arrived just recently as a slam/brutal death outfit committed to maximum low-end impact and surgical groove. Chicago's satellite cities have always punched above their weight in extreme metal, and Decayed Humanity continues that tradition.
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