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Disembowelled is a death metal band from Stoke-on-Trent, England, formed in 2012. The band trade in uncompromising brutal death metal with an emphasis on heaviness and technical precision.
Disembowelment, stylized as diSEMBOWELMENT, were a Melbourne, Australia death-doom duo formed in 1989 by guitarist/vocalist Renato Gallina and drummer Paul Mazziotta. The band released the Dusk EP (1992) and their sole studio album Transcendence into the Peripheral (1993) on Relapse Records before disbanding shortly after, having never performed live. AllMusic credits them as doom-grind pioneers, and they are widely recognized as forerunners of the funeral doom movement that emerged in subsequent years.
Disenchant is a progressive metal band from Izmir, Turkey, formed in 2018. The project explores complex progressive metal from the Aegean coast.
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Disengagement is a death metal band from North West England, formed in 2023 and rooted in old-school death metal traditions. Their debut EP Formless in a Violent World (2023) delivers four tracks of crushing OSDM that quickly drew over fifty supporters on Bandcamp.
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.
Disenterment is a black and death metal band from Mora, Sweden, formed in 2002. One of the veteran extreme metal acts from the Dalarna region.
Disenthral is a groove and melodic death metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, active since 2015. Their 2017 debut Anguish Begins delivers ten tracks blending groove, thrash, and melodic death metal, recorded at Stelthsound Studio and mixed by Stelios Kolidis in a limited edition digipack with a twelve-page booklet.
Disenthrall Denied is a groove metal and metalcore band from Livadia, Greece, formed in 2019. The band blend groove-heavy riffing with metalcore breakdowns in their aggressive, modern metal sound.
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