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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Greensburg, Indiana's Dis have been wielding black/death metal in the rural Midwest since 2018, an unlikely setting that only sharpens the isolation and fury in their sound. There is something fitting about extreme metal emerging from small-town Indiana — it sounds like it has nowhere else to go.
Disaffected started as a death/thrash metal act in Oeiras before evolving toward progressive death metal, adding complexity and nuance to their already aggressive foundation. This stylistic deepening reflects a band willing to grow beyond their early brutality into more challenging compositional territory.
Disassembled plays progressive death metal from Lisbon, active since 2008 and taking apart conventional song structures to rebuild them in more complex, unexpected configurations. Their mechanical name suits a methodical approach to deconstructing and reassembling extreme metal.
Discernment is a progressive metal band from Somma Lombardo, Italy, formed in 2024. The project explores complex and dynamic progressive metal compositions with an ambitious Italian sensibility.
Discors is a death and progressive metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2012. The project blends death metal with progressive complexity.
Disenchant is a progressive metal band from Izmir, Turkey, formed in 2018. The project explores complex progressive metal from the Aegean coast.
Disentropy is a progressive metal band from Degerfors, Sweden, formed in 2022. The project explores complex progressive metal.
A New York death metal act formed in 2019, Disillusion deal in the kind of unvarnished aggression that draws from the genre's most foundational era — churning, mid-paced riffs giving way to burst-fire blasting. The name carries weight: this is death metal committed to excavating the darkest corners of the form without pretense.
Disperse is a progressive metal band formed in Gmina Przeworsk, Poland in 2007, centered on the guitar work of Jakub Żytecki and the vocals of Rafał Biernacki. The band cites Cynic, Devin Townsend, and Allan Holdsworth among their influences, blending progressive metal with jazz and ambient textures. They released three studio albums — Journey Through the Hidden Gardens (2010), Living Mirrors (2013), and Foreword (2017) — the last two on Season of Mist.
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