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.

Out of Elgin, Illinois, Deities of Darkness have been honing a raw, unadorned black metal attack since 2010. Operating from the frost of the Midwest rather than Scandinavian forests, the band trades in cold, stripped-down riffs and shrieked venom rooted firmly in second-wave orthodoxy.

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.

New Jersey's DejaGravy have been cooking up a thick stew of sludge and doom since 2013. Built on lumbering riffs and a suffocating low-end, the band wallows in the murk between electric funeral doom and the feedback-saturated grime of Southern-influenced sludge.

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.

San Jose's Dekapitator have been a fixture of the Bay Area thrash underground since 2007, carrying on the scene's heritage with nasty, speed-driven aggression. Rooted in the classic 1980s Bay Area sound, they deliver riff-forward thrash that has no interest in modernization or compromise.

California's Dekrepit surfaced in 2024 as a raw black metal project operating under the noise-heavy Bandcamp handle noizedekrepit. Still early in their existence, the band builds on lo-fi black metal aesthetics that prioritize atmosphere and grime over polished presentation.