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Dismembered Flesh Mutilation is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Poland, formed in 2020. The project channels savage and visceral grinding death metal extremity.
DisnneyHell is a grindcore/death metal band from Capivari, São Paulo, Brazil, active since the mid-2010s and influenced by the likes of Napalm Death, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, and Terrorizer. Prior to their debut full-length, the band built their catalog with a 2008 demo, the EP Destruindo um Mundo de Fantasia (2012), and a live recording from 2017. Their debut album O Jardim dos Esquecidos (The Garden of the Forgotten) features ten tracks sung entirely in Portuguese, channeling the anger and intensity typical of the genre.
Displeasure is a grindcore and death metal band from La Plata, Buenos Aires, formed in 2020. They released the album "Enraizar el alma en lo complejo del odio" in February 2024 and contributed the track "Montañas de la locura" to the compilation "Sick Musik to Your Guts" later that year.
Dissected is a death metal and grindcore band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2021. The band deliver relentless extreme metal at the intersection of brutal death metal and grindcore intensity.
Dissected Flesh is a death metal and grindcore band from Brno, Czech Republic, formed in 2025. Their debut "Deliverance in Suffering" packs twelve tracks of extreme brutality into a concise 26-minute assault.
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.
Distortum is a grindcore and death metal band from Trelew, Chubut, one of the few extreme metal acts to emerge from Argentina's Patagonian interior. Their early demos "Descerebrado lentamente" (1996) and "Descomposición acelerada" (1997) established their place in the Argentine underground extreme metal scene of the 1990s.
Distress is a death metal and grindcore band from Zurich, Switzerland, active since 2010 and blending crust punk aggression with metallic intensity. Their catalog of EPs and splits channels d-beat urgency and confrontational energy through a raw, politically charged sonic attack.
Disturbance Project is a grindcore band from Madrid, Spain, active since 2004. With over two decades of activity, they are veterans of the Spanish grindcore scene.
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