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Disforija is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Vilnius, Lithuania, formed in 2004. The project has delivered over two decades of savage grinding death metal from the Lithuanian capital.
Disformes is a death metal band from Teresina, Piauí, Brazil, representing the underground extreme metal scene of Brazil's northeastern interior. The band released the EP "Suprema Arte da Morte" in March 2023, a six-track recording available on Bandcamp, and has also appeared on split releases including a collaboration with Argentine goregrind band Espermorragia. Their lyrical themes revolve around death, blood, war, religion, and human darkness.
Disfunctional is a death metal band from Aarhus, Denmark, formed in 2015. They deliver heavy death metal from Denmark's second-largest city.
Disfuneral is a death metal band from Nancy, France, formed in 2021. They deliver funereal death metal from Lorraine.
Disfuria is a crust punk and grindcore outfit from Valentín Alsina, Buenos Aires, formed in 2022 and drawing on powerviolence, death metal, and stenchcore. They released their debut full-length "No tengo boca y debo gritar" in December 2022, followed by "Ejercicios de violencia" in October 2023, both available on Bandcamp as independent releases.
Disgore plays thrash metal from Lisbon, formed in 2025 and representing the newest wave of Portuguese thrash. Their visceral name channels the genre's most primal impulses into aggressive, riff-driven compositions.
Out of Rochester, New York, Disgorged emerged in 2019 with a focused mandate: brutal death metal stripped to its most abrasive essentials. Rooted in the tradition of unrelenting blast beats and cavernous low-end brutality, they carry on the Northeast's long lineage of punishing underground death.
Disgorgement is a death metal band from Dortmund in the Ruhr Valley, active since 2015 and delivering the visceral, stomach-churning extremity their name implies. Their sound draws from the heaviest traditions of European and American death metal.
Disgorging Obscectomy is a brutal death metal band from Le Mans, France, formed in 2016. They deliver surgical brutal death metal from western France.
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