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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Deflowering Brain plays melodic death metal and goregrind from Moscow, active since 2013 and creating an unusual hybrid of melodic accessibility and extreme gore-themed brutality. This genre combination produces music that swings between beauty and revulsion.
Defluxit is a solo black metal project from Sofia, Bulgaria, created by Dobromir Angelov, who also plays in Certain Demise and Self Doomed. The project fuses atmospheric black metal with death and doom influences across short, densely layered compositions.
Defneta is a thrash metal band from Wejherowo, Poland, formed in 2022. The project delivers fast and aggressive thrash metal from the Pomeranian coast.
Defod is an atmospheric black metal band from North Wales, formed in 2021. They channel the dark landscapes of Wales through atmospheric black metal.
Deforeskination is a death metal band from Albstadt, Germany, active since 2013. They deliver raw, uncompromising death metal from the Swabian underground.
Deform is a black metal band from Denmark, formed in 2020. They channel cold Nordic darkness through raw black metal.
Deforma is a death metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2020. The project delivers aggressive death metal from the Ukrainian capital.
Deformachine is a death and thrash metal band from Alessandria, Italy, formed in 2020. The project combines the brutality of death metal with thrash metal's velocity in a devastating Italian extreme metal assault.
Deformation is a grindcore band from Sicily, Italy, formed in 2019. The project delivers short, violent bursts of grinding extremity from the Sicilian underground.
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