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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Wake up Dead (feat. Dave Mustaine) (2022)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Florida's Deepslate launched in 2023 with death metal's cruelty fused to grindcore's contempt for runtime — punishing, compact, and calibrated to leave wreckage.
Springfield, Missouri's Deepthroat Defecation arrived in 2024 armed with slam, goregrind, and brutal death metal, making zero concessions to restraint or good taste.
Boston's Deer Hollow are one of the more technically uncompromising acts in the city's extreme metal scene, locking technical death and black metal into dissonant, labyrinthine attacks since 2016.
Baton Rouge's Deface have been fusing death and thrash metal since 2017, channeling the South's tradition of swampy aggression into precision-tooled extreme metal.
Savage Brutal Death Metal / Grindcore from Mesquite, Texas (early); Kansas City, Missouri (later).
Kansas City's Defaced operate at the brutal end of the death metal spectrum, weaponizing grindcore's velocity and slam's punishing low-end into a compact, merciless attack.
Byron Center, Michigan's Defacement have been forging blackened death metal since 2019, wielding the raw hostility of black metal against the cavernous brutality of death to unsettling effect.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's Defamation Act arrived in 2025 fully committed to slam and brutal death metal, stacking bone-crushing breakdowns with the precision of a band that studied the genre's extremes before picking up instruments.
Amherst, Massachusetts's Defcon: Dead launched in 2024 with a melodic death/thrash hybrid — technically sharp, emotionally dark, and carrying the colder edge of New England in its DNA.
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