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Grafton, Ohio's Disembodied have been delivering brutal death metal since 2019, carving out their sound in the working-class industrial corridor between Cleveland and Columbus. Their approach is unsparing — blasting, guttural, and built for the kind of listener who measures heaviness in tonnage.
Disemboweled is a brutal death metal band from Merseburg, Germany, active since 2012. They deliver visceral, ultra-heavy brutal death metal.
Disentomb is a brutal death metal and grindcore band originally from Chisinau, Moldova, later based in Simferopol, formed in 2011. The project channels savage grinding death metal extremity.
Disfigure the Pious is a brutal deathcore band from Nuremberg, Germany, active since 2014. They unleash devastating breakdowns and extreme brutality.
Columbus, Ohio's Disfigurement have been crafting punishment in the brutal death metal and slam tradition since 2012, wielding the dense, pulverizing riff architecture that defines the Midwest's underground death scene. Their approach leans heavily on the slamming breakdowns and guttural extremity of the slam subgenre, built to level the pit and leave nothing standing.
Disfigurement is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Khabarovsk, Russia, formed in 2012. The project channels savage extreme metal from the Russian Far East.
Disfigurement of Flesh is a brutal death metal band from Asha, Russia, formed in 2012. The project delivers relentless brutal death metal from the Ural region.
Disforija is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Vilnius, Lithuania, formed in 2004. The project has delivered over two decades of savage grinding death metal from the Lithuanian capital.
Out of Rochester, New York, Disgorged emerged in 2019 with a focused mandate: brutal death metal stripped to its most abrasive essentials. Rooted in the tradition of unrelenting blast beats and cavernous low-end brutality, they carry on the Northeast's long lineage of punishing underground death.
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