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Disemboweler is a death metal and grindcore band from London, featuring Grosseph Chen on drums, Josh Spleen on guitar, and Stab on bass and vocals. Their 2025 demo delivers five tracks of grinding death in under eight minutes, released on a limited run of ten cappuccino-swirl cassettes that sold out immediately.
Disembowelled is a death metal band from Stoke-on-Trent, England, formed in 2012. The band trade in uncompromising brutal death metal with an emphasis on heaviness and technical precision.
Disembowelment, stylized as diSEMBOWELMENT, were a Melbourne, Australia death-doom duo formed in 1989 by guitarist/vocalist Renato Gallina and drummer Paul Mazziotta. The band released the Dusk EP (1992) and their sole studio album Transcendence into the Peripheral (1993) on Relapse Records before disbanding shortly after, having never performed live. AllMusic credits them as doom-grind pioneers, and they are widely recognized as forerunners of the funeral doom movement that emerged in subsequent years.
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Disengagement is a death metal band from North West England, formed in 2023 and rooted in old-school death metal traditions. Their debut EP Formless in a Violent World (2023) delivers four tracks of crushing OSDM that quickly drew over fifty supporters on Bandcamp.
Disenterment is a black and death metal band from Mora, Sweden, formed in 2002. One of the veteran extreme metal acts from the Dalarna region.
Disenthral is a groove and melodic death metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, active since 2015. Their 2017 debut Anguish Begins delivers ten tracks blending groove, thrash, and melodic death metal, recorded at Stelthsound Studio and mixed by Stelios Kolidis in a limited edition digipack with a twelve-page booklet.
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.
Disentury is a death/thrash metal and metalcore band from the Holzkirchen/Munich area of Germany, formed in 2022. They blend extreme metal aggression with metalcore dynamics.
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