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Declínio is a black/death metal trio from Assis, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2022, with members drawn from the bands GURO, REIKETSU, and YALDABAOTH. The band blends influences from grind, doom, and post-metal alongside extreme metal, channeling themes of mental chaos and death. They released the album "Natureza Estatal" in 2022 and a second record, "Talking With Ghosts," on their Bandcamp page.
Decolate is a thrash metal band from Bielsk Podlaski, Poland, formed in 2007. The project delivers aggressive thrash metal from the Podlasie region.
Decollated is a death/thrash metal band from Exeter, England, formed in 2017. They deliver beheading death/thrash from Devon.
Portland's Decomp have been grinding crust punk and thrash into a filthy, D-beat-driven hybrid since 2016. Raw and rust-coated, they carry the torch of the Pacific Northwest's most caustic underground traditions.
Decompose to Ashes is a black metal and ambient band from Decin in North Bohemia, Czech Republic, blending raw black metal intensity with atmospheric ambient textures. With releases like 'Pod Plameny Severu' and 'Until The Darkness Comes Again,' they channel the cold, forested landscape of their region into immersive sonic experiences.
Los Angeles death metal act Decomposed traffic in the putrid, old-school sound that defined the genre's early years, recasting it with a West Coast griminess. Formed in 2020, they keep their influences rotting and their riffs churning.
Dallas death metal unit Decomposed channel the dense, murky brutality of early American death metal with a Texas-sized heaviness. Since 2020 they've been stacking slabs of guttural riffage in the tradition of the genre's most uncompromising forebears.
Hailing from southwestern Connecticut, this Decomposed project mines familiar death metal territory with a focus on atmosphere as much as brute force. A regional underground entry in the long tradition of bands sharing this grimly evocative name.
Philadelphia's Decomposed carry on the East Coast death metal lineage with a sound rooted in the genre's ugliest, most unpolished impulses. Their Philly pedigree places them in a city with a long, underappreciated extreme metal history.
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