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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Monolith of Inhumanity (2012)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Death metal from Gooding, Idaho — a small town in the high desert Snake River Plain where isolation becomes a creative force. Decaying Martyr has been carving out their own space in the genre since 2022, far from any urban scene and all the better for it.
Deep in southern Illinois's Shawnee Hills, Makanda is an unlikely home for death metal, but Decaying Monolith has made it work since 2013. Their sound carries the weight of genuinely remote geography — dense, slow-churning, and entirely self-sufficient.
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.
Decaying Purity is a brutal death metal band from Kadikoy, Istanbul, Turkey, formed in 2006. The project delivers punishing brutal death metal from the Bosphorus city.
Decaym is a thrash metal band from Märkisch Oderland, Germany, formed in 2025. They bring fresh thrash energy from eastern Brandenburg.
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.
Decayor is a death/doom metal band from Donegal, Ireland, active since 2009. The band craft slow, heavy death-doom from the northwest of Ireland.
Deceaded is a crossover thrash band from Rzeszow, Poland, formed in 2021. The project merges thrash metal's velocity with punk energy.
Decease is a death metal band from Rakvere, Estonia, active since 2013. They play crushing death metal from the Estonian underground.
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