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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Disasterhate is a death and thrash metal band from Catania, Sicily, formed in 2018. The project delivers devastating death/thrash aggression from the Sicilian underground.
Disborn is a melodic death metal and thrash metal band from Vaxjo, Sweden, formed in 2018. The project channels aggressive melodeath and thrash from Smaland.
Disbrainer is a thrash metal band from Getxo, Basque Country, Spain, formed in 2018. They deliver brain-scrambling thrash from the Basque coast.
Discard is a death/thrash metal band from Joensuu, Finland, formed in 2017. They deliver discarded aggression through death and thrash metal.
Dark, grim black/thrash from Houston with crustpunk and doom influences. Released Under Grim Skies in 2022.
Discarnated is a death/thrash metal band from Porec, Croatia, formed in 2015. The band combine the heaviness of death metal with the precision and speed of thrash.
Vicious Death / Thrash Metal from Dallas.
Dallas's Discern arrived in 2023 with a death/thrash attack that slots naturally into the Texas tradition of technically sharp, aggressive metal. Young but purposeful, they represent a new generation picking up the thread of a scene that has always rewarded heaviness and precision.
Discharge is the legendary hardcore punk and D-beat band from Stoke-on-Trent, founded in 1977 by Terence "Tezz" Roberts and Royston "Rainy" Wainwright, widely credited as pioneers of the D-beat subgenre. Their later output incorporated heavy and thrash metal elements, and the band remain active with European touring dates into 2026 and releases including War Is Hell and Disensitise.
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