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Deformeth is a death metal/crust punk band from Galicia, Spain, formed in 2024. They fuse death metal's heaviness with crust punk's raw, dirty energy.
Deformis Bastardis plays black metal from Saint Petersburg, active since 2021 and whose pseudo-Latin name — suggesting deformed bastards — channels outsider identity into aggressive compositions. Their self-deprecating name carries defiance rather than shame.
Deformit is a doom metal band from Opoczno, Poland, formed in 2022. The project delivers crushing doom metal weight from central Poland.
A death metal band from Houthulst in the H8000 region of West Flanders, Deformity formed in 1995 and played all-out death metal without boundaries, drawing on the same geographical hardcore-meets-metal crucible that produced Congress and Liar. Their discography includes the albums Murder Within Sin (1999) and Superior (2002), and the band was active from 1995 to 2003 with a brief return in 2012.
Deformity BR is a death metal and grindcore band from Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil, known for a brutal, splatter-oriented approach to extreme metal. The band released their first full-length album "Anthropos Dead Gore Disgusting Phagia" through Thundergod Productions in 2010, followed by the EP "Torturing Unfortunate People" in 2016 and the compilation "Hacked, Boiled, Dismembered, Butchered" in 2020. Their music draws on gore and horror themes within the tradition of Brazilian brutal death metal.
Deformus plays a hybrid of heavy, stoner, and sludge metal from 's-Hertogenbosch in North Brabant, active since 2017. Their genre-blending approach creates deformed, misshapen compositions that refuse to fit neatly into any single category — as their name implies.
Defragment is an extreme metal band based in Santiago, Chile, formed by musicians from Chile, Venezuela, and Colombia, giving the project a distinctly multinational Latin American identity. The band released their debut EP 'Ecorruption' in 2017, followed by the full-length 'Outbreak' in 2021 and the seven-track EP 'Made of Chaos' in 2025, with the latter self-recorded and mixed by Felipe Cuevas at Estudio Arrebol. Their sound combines death metal brutality with grindcore intensity and has grown more technically nuanced with each release.
Defraktor is a thrash metal band from Belfort, France, formed in 2023. They deliver refracted thrash aggression from eastern France.
Defrenia is an industrial metal band from Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, formed in 2023. They deliver mechanized aggression from the Basque coastal capital.
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