Fuzzed-out Stoner Rock / Metal from Austin.

Deshuesadero is a sludge metal and crust band from Mexico City, Mexico. The band has been active since at least 2015 and released their debut full-length, La agonía de los sin suerte, in 2017, followed by the EP Al Azif: El Murmullo de los Demonios in 2019. They have appeared on multiple splits with other underground Mexican acts.

Brooklyn's Desiccate formed in 2022, adding a fresh voice to New York City's crowded but vital death metal scene with a sound that leans into the suffocating, airless quality their name implies. Even as a newer act, they've tapped into the raw intensity that defines death metal at its most uncompromising.

Woodstock, Connecticut's Desiderium have been working the thrash and groove metal intersection since 2011, delivering driving, kinetic riffwork that draws from both the technical precision of thrash and the body-moving punch of groove. The rural Connecticut setting gives their heaviness a certain unglamorous directness.

Cary, North Carolina's Desiderium have been one of the more thoughtful voices in American post-black metal since 2011, blending the genre's atmospheric, introspective elements with genuine emotional depth. Their music moves beyond black metal's more aggressive conventions into territory that is melancholic, expansive, and quietly devastating.

Polarizing experimental deathcore from Corpus Christi.

St. Louis's Desinsertion pair death metal's brutality with grindcore's furious brevity, producing a sound that is relentless and unsparing since their 2019 formation. The Midwest's underrated extreme metal underground has a genuine asset in a band that understand both sides of the death/grind equation.

Troy, New York's Desintegrator arrived on the stoner metal scene in 2023, bringing the genre's fuzz-heavy, riff-centric approach to upstate New York's blue-collar post-industrial landscape. Their name captures the slow, dissolving quality of their music — heavyweight and hypnotic, built for extended trips rather than quick hits.

Out of Española, New Mexico since 2013, Desmadre are a controlled detonation of death metal, grindcore, hardcore, and thrash — a four-genre collision that mirrors the Spanish word for chaos itself. They play fast and mean, with the kind of pit-ready ferocity that small desert towns breed when they have something to say.