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Dystocia is a melodic death metal band from the Marburg/Lahn area of Germany, active since 2011. They deliver powerful melodic death metal from central Hesse.
Dystonia is a death metal band from Picardie, France, active since 2012. They play contorted death metal from northern France.
Dystopia is a melodic black metal band from Nicosia, Cyprus, active since 2012 and combining black metal aggression with death metal heaviness and melodic sophistication. Their layered compositions balance blast-beating fury with atmospheric, contemplative passages.
Dystopy is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2018. They deliver dystopian melodic extremity from the French capital.
Lubbock, Texas-based technical death metal and grindcore outfit active since 2011, Dystrophic merges the surgical precision and rhythmic complexity of tech-death with the ferocious brevity of grindcore. Their West Texas origins put them squarely in an unlikely locale for such extreme and technical material.
New Brunswick, New Jersey band formed in 2010, Dystrophy began in progressive and thrash territory before evolving into technical death metal — a trajectory common to bands that outgrow speed in favor of precision and density. Their New Jersey location ties them to a robust mid-Atlantic extreme metal community.
Dystrophya is a death and thrash metal band from Viadana and Suzzara, in the Mantua province of Italy, formed in 2014. The project fuses death metal's heaviness with thrash metal's relentless speed.
An Antwerp-based death and doom metal band, Dysuria navigate the slow-grinding intersection of death metal brutality and doom's crushing weight, maintaining an underground presence on Bandcamp. The band represents the underground strain of Belgian extreme metal that prioritizes heaviness and atmosphere over commercial visibility.
Dysylumn is a progressive black/death metal band from Lyon, France, active since 2013. They push extreme metal into ambitious progressive territory from southeastern France.
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