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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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Monsey, New York's Decomposed bring a rough-hewn, straightforward death metal attack to the greater New York underground. Low-fidelity and uncompromising, they prioritize putrefaction over production.
Minnesota brutal death metal project Decomposed Cadaveric Remains live up to the name — churning out dense, gore-soaked extremity since 2021 with no regard for subtlety. This is Midwest brutality taken to its most literal conclusion.
Minneapolis crossover outfit Decomposer have been shredding the line between thrash, hardcore, and punk since 2015 with the caustic energy of a band that doesn't sit still. Think circle pit first, melody second.
Boston's Decompression marry black metal's icy hostility to doom's oppressive crawl, carving out a bleak, suffocating sound since 2022. The Massachusetts cold seeps into every droning, frost-bitten riff.
Seattle death metal unit Deconsecration arrived in 2020 with a sound steeped in desecration and liturgical blasphemy, their riffs dragged through the Pacific Northwest's damp underground. Methodical, heavy, and entirely without mercy.
Santa Cruz's Deconstruct have been navigating the crushing intersection of doom and death metal since 2012, leveraging the weight of both genres to build slow, suffocating walls of sound. A longtime fixture of the California underground.
Salt Lake City metalcore act Decontaminate have refined their sound since 2011, bringing a punishing, groove-heavy approach to a genre that rewards both technicality and brute force. Utah's extreme underground gets no purer expression.
Philadelphia's Decorporealized blend classic heavy metal structure with thrash's kinetic aggression, emerging in 2023 with a sound that nods to the old guard while keeping its boots firmly in the present. Riff-forward and rooted in tradition.
California's Decoy Octopus launched in 2026 as an oddly named but entirely serious death and heavy metal project, mixing feral aggression with moments of eerie, lurching melody. Cryptic by design, heavy by necessity.
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