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Dysmenore is a black and death metal band from Puchov, Slovakia, formed in 2024. The project merges black metal with death metal.
Punishing Brutal Death Metal from Houston.
Ripping Death Metal / Hardcore from Dallas.
Dysnerved is an avant-garde black/death metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2022. The band push the boundaries of extreme metal with experimental, avant-garde compositions blending black and death metal.
Dysnomia is a melodic death metal band from Vigo, Spain, active since 2011. They craft emotive melodic death metal from Galicia's largest city.
Roanoke, Virginia act Dysphagic has operated since 2009 at the crossroads of technical death metal and deathcore, combining the rhythmic churn and breakdowns of the latter with the surgical riffing complexity of the former. Their long-running activity in the Virginia underground speaks to a consistent dedication to the brutal and technical end of extreme metal.
Dysphasia is a melodic death metal band from Marly, France, formed in 2023. They deliver emotive melodic death metal from northern France.
East Chicago, Indiana death metal outfit active since 2010, Dysphoria draws from the region's industrial character to fuel a punishing and direct brand of death metal that values heaviness over ornamentation. Their location in the shadow of the Chicago metro places them within the broader Great Lakes extreme metal community.
Dysphoria is a death metal band from Schleswig, Germany, active since 2010. They channel despair and unease through powerful death metal.
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