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San Jose, California's Disincarnation have been chiseling their brand of death metal since 2017, tapping into the Bay Area's deep underground current that runs beneath the mainstream. Their name invokes the body-as-vessel imagery central to death metal's conceptual tradition, and their approach reflects a band focused on the craft of the riff above all else.
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.
Disinfection is a death metal band from Kiskunlachaza, Hungary, formed in 2015. The band deliver brutal death metal from the Hungarian extreme metal underground.
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.
Disintegrate plays melodic death/thrash metal from Leeuwarden in Friesland, active since 2012 and breaking molecular bonds through aggressive, hook-laden compositions. Their science-of-destruction name captures the precision with which they disassemble conventional song structures.
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.
Disinter is a death metal band from Järvenpää, Finland, active since 1991. With over three decades of history, they are among the most enduring death metal bands in Finland.
Disinterment is a death metal band from Krakow, Poland, formed in 2002. One of the veteran death metal acts in the Lesser Poland underground, the project has delivered over two decades of extreme metal.
Formed in Genk, Limburg in 2012, Disinterred were a five-piece death metal band whose members came from backgrounds spanning punk, hardcore, and black metal, giving their death metal a raw underground edge. Released on Dolorem Records, the band operated within that label's network of Belgian and international extreme underground acts before splitting sometime around 2016.
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