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Kansas City's Dejecter arrived in 2023 dragging death metal's rotting carcass through the swamp. Their death/sludge hybrid smothers crushing riffs in murk and slow-burning dread, channeling the Kansas City underground's appetite for music that punishes as much as it suffocates.
Dekadens is a black metal band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2017. The project channels dark black metal from the Polish capital.
Dekadent is an atmospheric black metal band from Ljubljana, Slovenia, formed in 2006. The project channels ethereal atmospheric black metal from the Slovenian capital.
Dekagram is an atmospheric black metal project from France, formed in 2018. They create immersive atmospheric black metal soundscapes.
Dekant is a post-black/doom/death metal band from Inverness, Scotland, formed in 2019. They pour decanted extreme metal from the Scottish Highlands.
Dekapitation formed in 2022 and deal in no-frills death metal built for destruction. Direct and unadorned, the band strips the genre back to its most violent fundamentals — grinding riffs, cavernous production, and relentless forward momentum.
San Jose's Dekapitator have been a fixture of the Bay Area thrash underground since 2007, carrying on the scene's heritage with nasty, speed-driven aggression. Rooted in the classic 1980s Bay Area sound, they deliver riff-forward thrash that has no interest in modernization or compromise.
Dekapited are a thrash metal band from Santiago, Chile whose sound draws heavily on classic acts like Kreator, Dark Angel, Slayer, and fellow Chilean forebears Necrosis and Atomic Aggressor. The band self-released their debut EP Contra Iglesia y Estado in 2011, followed by the full-lengths Nacidos del Odio (2015) and Destrucción Trascendental (2022), the latter recorded at Dbaudiostudio in Melipilla and promoting it with an extensive European tour spanning roughly 20 dates across Switzerland, Belgium, France, Germany, and beyond.
Dekathexis is a death metal/deathcore band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2023. They merge death metal's technicality with deathcore's punishing breakdowns.
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