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Defision is a groove metal band from Alexandroupoli, Greece, formed in 2013 as an evolution of a prior jam project. Their 2016 debut A Thousand Bullets, recorded at Music Temple Studio with Doukas Siskopoulas, features four tracks of riff-driven groove metal with socially conscious themes.
Defixio is a black metal project from Rimini, Italy, formed in 2022. The project channels dark and ritualistic black metal from the Adriatic coast underground.
San Diego's Defixion have been building their death metal sound since 2019, working in a city whose position on the southern border has always given its underground scene a raw, border-crossings-at-midnight intensity. Their approach draws from the fundamental grammar of death metal — blasting drums, grinding riffs, vocals scraped from somewhere subterranean.
Defixiones is an atmospheric black metal project from Italy, formed in 2021. The project layers ethereal atmospheres over raw black metal foundations, creating immersive and darkly transcendent soundscapes.
New Jersey's Defkon blend progressive and groove metal into something heavier and more textured than either genre alone, with their 2026 formation placing them among the newer wave of bands mining that fertile middle ground. Their sound reportedly incorporates grunge elements into the progressive-groove framework, adding a raw looseness to the technical foundations.
Los Angeles' Defkon bring California's long thrash tradition to bear in their 2026 formation, working in a city that helped define the genre's velocity and precision in the 1980s and has never entirely let go. Their sound fits squarely in the aggressive, technically minded end of thrash metal that LA has historically done best.
Deflagrator is a black and thrash metal band from Naples, Italy, formed in 2011. Hailing from the deepest grounds of the Italian wasteland, the four-piece delivers fierce extreme metal across releases like 'Raising Weapons for the Beast' and 'Terror Grave Emanations.'
Defleshed is a death and thrash metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2022. The project channels aggressive death/thrash from the historic university city.
Active 2012-2022. Debuted with 'The Prophecy in the Entrails' in 2017, followed by 'Hibernaculum of Decay' in 2018.
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