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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Disciplina is a thrash metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2017. The project channels fast and furious thrash metal energy from the Milanese underground.
Disconnected Brain is a thrash metal band from Aix-les-Bains, France, active since 2013. They deliver mindless thrash from the Alpine spa town.
Discordance is an industrial death/thrash metal band from Puerto de Sagunto, Spain, active since 2000. With over two decades of activity, they pioneer industrial-tinged extreme metal from the Valencian coast.
Discorde is a death/thrash metal band from Bouëx, France, active since 2013. They deliver discordant death/thrash from the Charente region.
Discrepancy is a death metal and metalcore band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2014. The project blends death metal with metalcore and thrash from Russia's cultural capital.
Columbus, Ohio's Discretionary Kayoss have been tearing through the crossover thrash playbook since 2020, combining punk's stripped-down aggression with metal's firepower in the tradition the genre was built on. They bring a chaotic energy to the Columbus underground that the city's thriving DIY scene has always made room for.
Discröyd is a heavy/thrash metal band from Munich, Germany, active since 2013. They play raw, destructive metal from Bavaria's capital.
Disease Gunthaar is a thrash metal/crossover/grunge band from Besançon, France, emerging in 2025. They blend thrash, crossover, and grunge into a diseased cocktail.
Disenteria is a crossover thrash metal band from Santos, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2020 and operating as an independent act. The band is listed on Encyclopaedia Metallum and participates in the São Paulo coastal region's underground extreme metal circuit, drawing on the crossover traditions of Brazilian thrash.
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