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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Dis Tortion is a thrash metal band from Gomel, Belarus, active since 2008 with a five-piece lineup featuring dual guitars and albums like 'Animal Farm' and 'Time for Solutions.' Recently bringing in vocalist Pavel Shkuratov, the band delivers classic thrash attack with a relentless live presence.
Disablust is a thrash/death metal band from Dijon, France, active since 2009. They play fierce thrash/death from the Burgundian capital.
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.
Disaffection is a Christian thrash metal band from Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, signed to Bombworks Records. The band released their debut album "Begin the Revolution" in 2010, a ten-track old-school thrash record addressing social issues, faith, and politics, drawing comparisons to American Christian thrash acts like Deliverance. Reviewers have highlighted their aggressive riffing style and their ability to combine faith-based lyrical themes with authentic Brazilian thrash metal aggression.
Disapprove is a thrash metal band from Wolow, Poland, formed in 2017. The project delivers aggressive thrash metal from the Lower Silesian underground.
Disarray is a Berlin-based thrash metal and hardcore act formed in 2023, channeling chaos and disorder into high-energy compositions that draw from both genres' most confrontational impulses. Their name is both a description and an aspiration — creating controlled sonic mayhem.
Disassemble is a death and thrash metal band from Petrovac na Mlavi, Serbia, formed in 2015. The project fuses death metal with thrash metal velocity from the Branicevo region.
Disaster Area is a thrash metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2014 and delivering high-energy riffing rooted in the classic thrash tradition. Their sound channels the aggressive tempo and tight rhythmic attack of the genre's foundational acts.
Disaster Now is a thrash/groove metal band from Bilbao in the Basque Country, active since 2016 and delivering urgent, high-energy metal that demands immediate attention. Their name's sense of impending catastrophe translates directly into music built on explosive riffs and relentless momentum.
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