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Actin' Up (2023)
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Safe House (2017)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Schenectady deathcore act Declension arrived in 2022 trafficking in dense, down-tuned death metal attack bolstered by the mechanical precision of modern deathcore. Their name implies collapse — and the music delivers on the promise.
Chillicothe thrash outfit Declination have been sharpening their riffs since 2013, keeping the genre's old-school aggression alive in the heartland. Fast, direct, and unapologetically traditional.
Tacoma's Decline of Order bulldoze through a dense tangle of brutal death metal and deathcore, built for maximum crushing impact. Since their 2022 formation they've pushed the genre's appetite for punishment to its logical extreme.
Aurora's Decline of Sanity blend the slow, suffocating weight of stoner metal with death metal's guttural fury — a hazy, punishing combination that arrived in 2024 from Colorado's high-altitude underground. Equal parts skull-crush and slow burn.
Portland's Decomp have been grinding crust punk and thrash into a filthy, D-beat-driven hybrid since 2016. Raw and rust-coated, they carry the torch of the Pacific Northwest's most caustic underground traditions.
Los Angeles death metal act Decomposed traffic in the putrid, old-school sound that defined the genre's early years, recasting it with a West Coast griminess. Formed in 2020, they keep their influences rotting and their riffs churning.
Dallas death metal unit Decomposed channel the dense, murky brutality of early American death metal with a Texas-sized heaviness. Since 2020 they've been stacking slabs of guttural riffage in the tradition of the genre's most uncompromising forebears.
Hailing from southwestern Connecticut, this Decomposed project mines familiar death metal territory with a focus on atmosphere as much as brute force. A regional underground entry in the long tradition of bands sharing this grimly evocative name.
Philadelphia's Decomposed carry on the East Coast death metal lineage with a sound rooted in the genre's ugliest, most unpolished impulses. Their Philly pedigree places them in a city with a long, underappreciated extreme metal history.
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