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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Disgorging Obscectomy is a brutal death metal band from Le Mans, France, formed in 2016. They deliver surgical brutal death metal from western France.
Disgracing is a brutal death metal band from Manchester featuring vocalist Jack Evans, guitarist Lewis Candlin, drummer Jake Gamble, and bassist Laurence Alves. Their debut Descension into Despair established the four-piece in the UK death metal underground, with 2025 live dates at London's Black Heart and Manchester's Offal Fest.
Disguster is a brutal death metal band from Achinsk, Russia, formed in 2010. The project delivers punishing brutal death metal from central Siberia.
Disgustibus is a brutal death metal band from Crema, in the Cremona province of Lombardy, Italy, formed in 2020. The project delivers punishing and visceral brutal death metal extremity.
Disinfect is a brutal death metal band from Ludwigsburg, Germany, active since 2001. With over two decades in the underground, they are seasoned veterans of German brutal death metal.
Philadelphia's Disinhume occupy a violent intersection of slam death metal, brutal death, and deathcore, combining suffocating groove breakdowns with the blast-and-grind extremity that defines the East Coast underground. Formed in 2015, they've helped carry the torch for Philly's brutal scene, weaponizing every subgenre in their arsenal without compromise.
Disintegrating is a brutal death metal band from Szczecin, Poland, formed in 2025. The project delivers punishing brutal death metal from the West Pomeranian underground.
Dismal Foresight is a brutal death metal band from Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, active since the early 2000s. Their debut recording, Shadows of the Wisdom, was tracked in 2002 at Underground Studio in Maringá and released in 2003, followed by the live album Underground Force Live (2005) and the full-length Obscured Mind (2007). The band returned in 2020 with Closed Eyes, demonstrating continued activity within Brazil's underground brutal death metal scene.
Corona, California's Dismembered Engorgement have been plumbing the depths of slam and brutal death metal since 2016, bringing the Inland Empire's underground ugliness to its logical extreme. Dense slabs of mid-paced slamming brutality anchor their sound, the kind of suffocating low-end heaviness that Southern California's brutal death scene has long perfected.
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