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Dismanibus is a five-piece melodic death metal band from Colchester, Essex, formed in 2013. Their debut album The Old Lie (2013) was followed by years of development leading to their forthcoming concept album Dacia, previewed by the 2025 single Becoming the Warrior.
Rosemead, California's Dismantle arrived in 2020 with a thrash metal blueprint built for maximum velocity and aggression, drawing on the San Gabriel Valley's scrappy underground energy. Their sound is built on the classic Southern California thrash template — taut, driving riffs and a relentless forward momentum that's all muscle and no filler.
Dismantler is a death metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2018. The project delivers crushing death metal from Russia's cultural capital.
Dismayed is a death and thrash metal band from Bologna, Italy, formed in 2021. The project fuses death metal's crushing weight with thrash metal's relentless speed from the Emilia-Romagna scene.
Dismember is a death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 1991. Legendary pioneers of the Swedish death metal sound, the band is among the genre's most influential and enduring acts.
Corona, California's Dismembered Engorgement have been plumbing the depths of slam and brutal death metal since 2016, bringing the Inland Empire's underground ugliness to its logical extreme. Dense slabs of mid-paced slamming brutality anchor their sound, the kind of suffocating low-end heaviness that Southern California's brutal death scene has long perfected.
Denver's Dismembered Fetus have been a fixture of Colorado's extreme metal underground since 1997, making them one of the longer-running American goregrind and death metal acts still operating. Blending death metal's intensity with the surgical gore-obsession of grindcore, they've outlasted countless contemporaries through sheer devotion to the ugliest end of extreme music.
Dismembered Flesh Mutilation is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Poland, formed in 2020. The project channels savage and visceral grinding death metal extremity.
San Antonio, Texas's Dismemberment of a Whore are one of the newest additions to Texas's longstanding brutal death metal tradition, forming in 2024 with the name and intent of a band that means business. Part of a city with serious underground death metal credibility, they arrive fully committed to the most uncompromising end of the brutal death spectrum.
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