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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Dissocia is a progressive death metal/deathcore band from Spain, emerging in 2025. They push extreme metal into ambitious progressive territory.
San Diego's Dissolution have been crafting death metal since 2014, operating in a city with a deep extreme metal underground that has quietly shaped the West Coast scene for decades. Their approach draws from the genre's murky, sepulchral tradition, building on San Diego's rich history of bands willing to push death metal into uglier, more suffocating territory.
Dissolution is a death metal band from Olomouc, Czech Republic, formed in 2014. They craft dark, heavy death metal with an emphasis on atmosphere and punishing heaviness.
Dissolve is a progressive death metal band from Rennes, France, active since 1993. With over three decades of activity, they are pioneering practitioners of French progressive death metal.
Dissolving is a melodic/progressive death metal band from Mainz, Germany, formed in 2022. They craft intricate, melodic death metal with progressive depth.
Dissolving Entity is a brutal death metal band from Scotland, formed in 2025 by guitarists Daniel Scott and David Easton, vocalist Luke Lockley, and bassist George Lidster. Their debut EP Parasite Enthroned (2025) delivers three tracks of slamming brutal death metal produced by Easton and mastered by Lockley.
Dissonant Cognition is a melodic death metal band from Aberdeen, Scotland, formed in 2017. Their Defy the Tyrant EP channels melodic death metal aggression with the intensity of the Scottish underground metal scene.
Dissouled is a death metal/grindcore band from Wolfsburg, Germany, active since 2000. With a quarter century of activity, they are long-standing pillars of the German extreme underground.
Brutal Death Metal from Dallas.
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