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Districtus is a death/thrash metal band from Hartlepool in northeast England, formed in 2011. The band combine the ferocity of death metal with the speed and precision of thrash in their independently released material.
Distrust plays death/gothic metal from Weissenfels in Saxony-Anhalt, active since 2013 and blending the heaviness of death metal with gothic metal's dark melodicism and atmospheric depth. Their name captures the suspicion and unease that pervades their sound.
Distruster is a crust punk, death metal, and speed metal band from the Krakow area, Poland, formed in 2022. The project merges crust punk aggression with death and speed metal velocity.
A death metal band from Lower Austria — not the Chicago alternative metal band of the same name — whose releases are hosted on Bandcamp under the handle disturbedmusic. They occupy the death metal underground in the Lower Austria region.
Disturbed Kaos Society is a progressive death metal band from Grans, France, formed in 2020. They deliver chaotic progressive death metal from Provence.
Disznotor is a death metal band from Debrecen, Hungary, formed in 2022. Named after the Hungarian tradition of pig slaughter, the band deliver brutal death metal with visceral themes.
Ditchcreeper is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Southampton, England, formed in 2015. The band deliver relentless, punishing extremity at the intersection of grinding blast beats and brutal death metal low-end.
Divension is a melodic death metal band from Sargans, Switzerland, whose 2021 debut 'Conquer The Dying Sun' spans twelve tracks over sixty-three minutes of genre-crossing heaviness. Their sound balances gripping riffs and melodic choruses with thrash intensity, including the epic thirteen-minute title track.
New York's Divergence have been building their case for technical death metal fused with deathcore's structural intensity since 2013, operating under a NYC banner that carries serious underground weight. Their technical death/deathcore hybrid is a dense, demanding proposition — precision musicianship deployed in service of maximum brutality.
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