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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Portland, Oregon's Defiant Body emerged in 2024 at the heaviest end of sludge and doom, a new entry in a city that has quietly become one of the best homes in the country for slow, crushing metal. Their approach leans into the sludge side of the equation — feedback-laden, emotionally bleak, and physically punishing.
Defiant Cult is a Veronese thrash/groove metal band active since 2017, blending the relentless riffing of thrash with groove metal's rhythmic swagger. Their name suggests a rebellious streak that manifests in aggressive, fist-pumping anthems built for live performance.
Defiatory is a thrash metal band from Umea, Sweden, formed in 2016. The project delivers aggressive thrash metal from northern Sweden.
Los Angeles' Deficient Creation have been grinding through the death metal underground since 2012, building their sound in a city where underground metal has to fight for space against a hundred competing scenes. Their approach is direct and unglamorous — old-school death metal values, no shortcuts.
Defier is a thrash/speed metal band from Hämeenlinna, Finland, active since 2013. They deliver blistering speed and thrash metal from central Finland.
Los Angeles' Defigurement arrived in 2024 playing technical grindcore — a subgenre that demands both speed and compositional intelligence, and which has a notoriously small margin for error. Even in one of the world's most crowded metal markets, their hyper-precise approach to grind stands out for its surgical intensity.
Defilade is a melodic black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2017. The band merge melodic sensibility with black metal intensity in their Hellenic extreme metal output.
Billings, Montana's Defile have been at it since 2001, blending black and death metal in a remote setting where the genre's extremity seems entirely appropriate to the landscape. Over two decades of activity they've developed a sound that carries the cold rawness of the Northern Rockies without softening its edges for mainstream consumption.
Colorado's Defile occupy the thrashier end of the heavy metal spectrum, formed in 2001 with a sound that takes classic riff-based heavy metal and sharpens it with the velocity and aggression of thrash. Their longevity in a competitive Rocky Mountain scene speaks to the durability of their no-frills approach.
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