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Discult is a post-metal and sludge metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2021. The project crafts atmospheric post-metal with sludge weight.
Discurso de Pobre is a grindcore band from the Paraisópolis periphery of São Paulo, Brazil, combining extreme music with direct social and political commentary. They released the album "Notícia ruim não chega, ela permanece" in May 2018 and followed it with "Tapando o sol com a peneira" in October 2020, both available on Bandcamp. The band operates on a DIY basis within São Paulo's underground grindcore community.
Disdain is a power metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2019. The project delivers soaring power metal from the west coast.
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.
Disease Illusion is a melodic death metal band from Bologna, Italy, formed in 2011, featuring members from Italy, Denmark, and the UK. Inspired by the Gothenburg scene, the band blends heavy riffs with intense melodies and atmospheric elements across three albums including 'Plastic Ocean.'
Diseased Mind plays death metal from Oradea near the Hungarian border, active since 2018 and channeling mental pathology into punishing extreme metal compositions. Their psychiatric name frames death metal as the sonic expression of a disturbed consciousness.
Disembalmed is a crust punk and death metal band from Varmland and Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2024. The project merges crust aggression with death metal.
Grafton, Ohio's Disembodied have been delivering brutal death metal since 2019, carving out their sound in the working-class industrial corridor between Cleveland and Columbus. Their approach is unsparing — blasting, guttural, and built for the kind of listener who measures heaviness in tonnage.
Disembodied Tyrant is a Missouri-based deathcore project that was launched in 2020 by vocalist Donovan Parchment and producer Wilhelm Vickers. After a lineup overhaul that brought vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Blake Mullens to the forefront, the project evolved into one of the more intense acts in the modern deathcore underground. Their punishing sound combines slamming breakdowns with technical precision in a way that appeals to fans of both traditional deathcore and more experimental heavy music.
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