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Disintegrating is a brutal death metal band from Szczecin, Poland, formed in 2025. The project delivers punishing brutal death metal from the West Pomeranian underground.
Disintegration started as a black metal act in the mountain village of Al in Hallingdal before incorporating Viking metal elements. Their remote alpine setting provides an authentic backdrop for music that has evolved from pure black metal fury toward the epic sweep of Viking-themed compositions.
Disinter is a death metal band from Järvenpää, Finland, active since 1991. With over three decades of history, they are among the most enduring death metal bands in Finland.
Disinter was a death/thrash metal band from Mendoza, Argentina, active from the early 1990s before eventually splitting up. Their 1991 demo "Disinterra Et Corpus" remains their most documented early recording and is preserved on Bandcamp, capturing a raw approach to extreme metal in line with the South American underground of that era.
Disinterment is a death metal band from Krakow, Poland, formed in 2002. One of the veteran death metal acts in the Lesser Poland underground, the project has delivered over two decades of extreme metal.
Formed in Genk, Limburg in 2012, Disinterred were a five-piece death metal band whose members came from backgrounds spanning punk, hardcore, and black metal, giving their death metal a raw underground edge. Released on Dolorem Records, the band operated within that label's network of Belgian and international extreme underground acts before splitting sometime around 2016.
Disjecta Membrae is a funeral doom metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2017. Their name meaning 'scattered remains,' they create glacially slow funeral doom.
A Belgian grindcore act operating under the Bandcamp handle dissonator, Disjonctor represent the abrasive, short-form brutality that characterizes the genre's underground Belgium contingent. Their output sits within a well-established Belgian grindcore tradition that stretches from Agathocles through to the present underground.
Diskelion is a symphonic metal project centered on composer Tom Harris and vocalist Gaby Koss (ex-Haggard), featuring guest musicians from Equilibrium, Xandria, Diabulus in Musica, and Blackmore's Night. Their 2014 album Remember Sorrow offers ten tracks of orchestral, female-fronted symphonic metal in the tradition of Nightwish and Epica.
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