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Disapprove is a thrash metal band from Wolow, Poland, formed in 2017. The project delivers aggressive thrash metal from the Lower Silesian underground.
Disarm is a grindcore band from Lucca, Tuscany, Italy, formed in 2023. The project merges grindcore extremity with crust punk aggression in a short, violent sonic assault.
Disarmed is a groove metal/hardcore band from Alcobendas, Spain, active since 2014. They combine groove metal's weight with hardcore's directness from Madrid's northern suburbs.
Disarmonia Mundi is a melodic death metal band from Avigliana, near Turin, Italy, formed in 2001. After nearly a decade away, the band returned with 'The Dormant Stranger' in 2025, continuing their signature melodic death metal marked by beautiful choruses and heavy riffing.
Disarnicly is a funeral doom metal band from Krasnoyarsk, Russia, formed in 2024. The project crafts glacially slow and emotionally devastating doom from central Siberia.
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.
Disarthia is a metalcore band from Rancagua, O'Higgins, Chile, formed in 2012 and rooted in the chaotic, dissonant end of the genre with comparisons drawn to early 2000s acts like Converge and Curl Up and Die. Their known recorded output includes the self-released album "Aggressive Lies" (2013).
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.
Disassembled plays progressive death metal from Lisbon, active since 2008 and taking apart conventional song structures to rebuild them in more complex, unexpected configurations. Their mechanical name suits a methodical approach to deconstructing and reassembling extreme metal.
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