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Dismal Crux is a heavy/thrash/doom metal band from Granada, Spain, formed in 2022. They forge a dark crossroads of heavy, thrash, and doom metal.
Dismal Dawn is a melodic death metal band from Mikashevichy, Belarus, incorporating folk metal elements and instrumental passages into their sound. Their 2015 release 'The Awakening' spans six tracks of expansive, harmonically rich metal with compositions averaging over five minutes.
Dismal Euphony is a pioneering Norwegian symphonic/melodic black metal act from Stavanger, active since 1996 and among the early architects of the symphonic black metal sound. Their later evolution toward gothic metal expanded their palette while maintaining the dark melodicism that defined their influential early work.
Dismal Fog is a thrash metal band from Toulouse, France, active since 1990. With over three decades of history, they are among the oldest thrash acts in the French scene.
Dismal Foresight is a brutal death metal band from Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, active since the early 2000s. Their debut recording, Shadows of the Wisdom, was tracked in 2002 at Underground Studio in Maringá and released in 2003, followed by the live album Underground Force Live (2005) and the full-length Obscured Mind (2007). The band returned in 2020 with Closed Eyes, demonstrating continued activity within Brazil's underground brutal death metal scene.
A melodic death/black metal band from Vienna, Austria, formed in 1997 and signed to Black Empire Records. Their catalog includes 'Thoughts' (2004) and the album 'Rethought' (2015), and they have performed at Kaltenbach Open Air and at Vienna venues including the Viper Room, mixing melodic death metal with black and thrash metal elements.
Dismal Sleep is an epic and funeral doom metal band from Greece, formed in 2021. Their debut Beyond the Veil (2021) features seven tracks of oppressively slow, sorrowful doom metal spanning nearly forty-five minutes, with titles like Lowering of the Coffin and Hovering Above a Mouldy Tomb.
Ruthless Brutal Death Metal from Houston.
Dismalia is a gothic metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2021. The project crafts dark, melancholic gothic metal atmospheres from the Italian capital.
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