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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Big Ship Little Ship / Bassline Junkie (2020)
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Trial By Fire (2023)
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Deformus plays a hybrid of heavy, stoner, and sludge metal from 's-Hertogenbosch in North Brabant, active since 2017. Their genre-blending approach creates deformed, misshapen compositions that refuse to fit neatly into any single category — as their name implies.
Defraktor is a thrash metal band from Belfort, France, formed in 2023. They deliver refracted thrash aggression from eastern France.
Defrenia is an industrial metal band from Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, formed in 2023. They deliver mechanized aggression from the Basque coastal capital.
Defunctis is a black, death, and doom metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2024. The project merges three pillars of extreme metal darkness into a crushing and atmospheric Roman metal experience.
Defunctus Astrum is a Belarusian black metal project from Minsk, active since 2014 and whose Latin name — meaning "dead star" — evokes cosmic nihilism. Their music channels the vast emptiness implied by their name into atmospheric, space-obsessed black metal.
Defus is a death metal band from Stargard, Poland, formed in 2018. The project channels aggressive death metal from the West Pomeranian underground.
Defuze plays heavy/thrash metal from Vila do Conde on Portugal's northern coast, active since 2007 and delivering nearly two decades of explosive, riff-heavy compositions. Their disarming name belies music that detonates with full force.
Defy the Curse plays death metal infused with crust punk energy from Horst aan de Maas in Limburg, active since 2018. Their name's defiant spirit carries into music that merges death metal's heaviness with crust's D-beat urgency and political edge.
Defy the Laws of Tradition is a metalcore band from Nuremberg, Germany, active since 2009. They have spent over fifteen years forging aggressive metalcore from the Franconian underground.
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