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Dispassion is a deathcore band from Miskolc, Hungary, formed in 2017. The band fuse heavy breakdowns with death metal aggression in their modern extreme metal sound.
Dispatcher plays power/speed metal from Groningen, formed in 2025 and delivering high-velocity compositions with the urgency of an emergency response. Their rapid-deployment name matches a sound built on racing tempos and soaring melodies.
Dispensary is a death and thrash metal band from Chelyabinsk, Russia, formed in 1970. One of the oldest extreme metal acts in Russia.
Disperse is a progressive metal band formed in Gmina Przeworsk, Poland in 2007, centered on the guitar work of Jakub Żytecki and the vocals of Rafał Biernacki. The band cites Cynic, Devin Townsend, and Allan Holdsworth among their influences, blending progressive metal with jazz and ambient textures. They released three studio albums — Journey Through the Hidden Gardens (2010), Living Mirrors (2013), and Foreword (2017) — the last two on Season of Mist.
Dispersed Ashes is a funeral doom/black metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, formed in 2018. They create vast, glacially slow funeral doom intertwined with black metal's bleakness.
Dispersia plays gothic/doom metal from Cluj-Napoca, active since 2017 and scattering dark, melancholic atmospheres across slow-moving compositions. Their name's suggestion of dispersal and fragmentation carries into music that spreads sorrow like mist through the Transylvanian valleys.
Dispersion is a death metal band from Kämpfelbach, Germany, active since 2014. They play crushing death metal from the Baden region.
Disphere is a death metal band from Pomigliano d'Arco, in the Naples province of Campania, Italy, formed in 2012. The project channels aggressive death metal from the Neapolitan underground.
Dispheris is a crust punk and death metal band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2021. The project merges crust punk's raw aggression with death metal's crushing weight.
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