Oneonta, New York's Deiphage formed in 2023 in the black/death metal tradition — a pairing that fuses the iciness and atmosphere of black metal with death metal's penchant for brutality and technical violence. The band's name suggests something that devours gods, and their sound operates accordingly: relentless, uncompromising, and built for total annihilation.

Sacramento's Deiphage emerged in 2023 channeling the rawest currents of black/death metal — a collision of blasphemous tremolo assaults and sepulchral death metal brutality. Their approach favors filth and atmosphere over technicality, finding its footing in the tradition of war metal's most uncompromising practitioners.

Formed in 2016 in Pleasanton, California, Deities fuse the jackhammer riffing of Bay Area thrash with the churning low-end of death metal. The band carries on the aggression of the region's thrash legacy while pushing into harder, more death-inflected territory.

Peru, Illinois band Deity Disfigured launched in 2021 blending the melodic sweep of Gothenburg-style death metal with the percussive weight of deathcore. Their sound navigates the tension between melodic hooks and breakdowns, adding a level of darkness that keeps it planted firmly on the extreme end.

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.

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.

Norfolk, Virginia's Dekulakization arrived in 2022 with a brutal death metal attack named after Soviet-era forced collectivization — a title that sets the tone for music that is blunt, historically aware, and without mercy. Rooted in the Norfolk underground, the band traffics in churning low-tuned punishment with violent rhythmic precision.

Tucson's Del Mal are a fresh death metal outfit formed in 2024, drawing on the arid brutality of the Arizona desert. Their name gestures toward malevolence in Spanish, and the music matches the harshness of their Southwest surroundings with grinding, no-nonsense death metal aggression.

Hailing from Ellijay, Georgia, Delaceration have been threading melodic death metal and metalcore together since 2014. The band balances the aggressive rhythmic sensibility of metalcore against the melodic riff craft of Scandinavian death metal, drawing from both traditions without fully committing to either.