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Displacement is a thrash metal band from Bolton, England, formed in 2018. The band deliver high-energy thrash rooted in the genre's classic attack of speed and aggression.
Disposal plays death/thrash metal from Hameenlinna in the Finnish lake district, active since 2011 and disposing of listeners' expectations through efficient, well-crafted extreme metal. Their no-frills name matches an approach that wastes nothing — every riff serves the song's destructive purpose.
Disquiet plays melodic thrash metal from Amsterdam, active since 2008 and channeling anxiety and unease into technically proficient, hook-laden compositions. Their name captures the restless energy that drives their music forward — never settling, always pushing.
Disreality is a thrash/death metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2023. They deliver aggressive thrash/death metal from the Rhineland.
Disrupt plays thrash/death metal from Porto, active since 2007 and delivering nearly two decades of sonic disruption from Portugal's second city. Their interference-evoking name drives aggressive compositions designed to shatter any sense of order or calm.
Dissector is a thrash and technical death metal band from Split, Croatia, active since 2007, evolving from straightforward thrash into technical death metal territory. The band represent the long-running extreme metal tradition of the Dalmatian coast.
Dissectrophy is a technical death metal band from Preston, Lancashire, formed in 2011 by guitarists Matt Gornall and Matt Murphy, bassist Rhys Mather, and drummer Russell Sumner. They debuted with the video for Entombed at a Halloween show in 2011 and followed up with Fragmenting Reality (2012) and a 2013 demo recorded at Mill Rehearsal Studios.
Ferocious Technical Speed / Thrash Metal from Flower Mound/Austin.
Dissensy is a thrash metal band from Banovce nad Bebravou, Slovakia, formed in 2019. The project delivers aggressive thrash metal.
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