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Disfigure the Pious is a brutal deathcore band from Nuremberg, Germany, active since 2014. They unleash devastating breakdowns and extreme brutality.
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.
Disomnia is a Buenos Aires deathcore band formed in 2023 by vocalist Guillermo Lucas, guitarist Leonel Di Stefano, and bassist Kevin Zubiaurre. They released their debut "Viva Miseria" in November 2023 and followed it with "Reconversión" in February 2025, both independent releases built around dissonant riffs and frantic rhythms.
Dispassion is a deathcore band from Miskolc, Hungary, formed in 2017. The band fuse heavy breakdowns with death metal aggression in their modern extreme metal sound.
Dissocia is a progressive death metal/deathcore band from Spain, emerging in 2025. They push extreme metal into ambitious progressive territory.
Maryland's Distention formed in 2023 trafficking in the space between death metal's crushing extremity and deathcore's breakdown-heavy structure, a synthesis that reflects the current state of the Mid-Atlantic's extreme underground. Still fresh, they're a band arriving at a moment when the line between these two subgenres has never been more productively blurred.
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.
Divine Hatred is a deathcore band from Sheffield, England, formed in 2020. Their discography spans several releases including Natural Order, Al Mumit, Moral Event Horizon, and Infections of a Pathogenic Message, each building on their aggressive deathcore foundation.
Divine Sins plays melodic death metal and deathcore from Hilversum, the Dutch media capital, active since 2009. Their oxymoronic name — sacred transgressions — frames their music as a paradox of beauty and brutality.
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