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A death metal band from Austria, operating in the underground with a small catalog of releases. They are listed among Austrian death metal acts in the Metal Archives and maintain a Bandcamp presence.
Dissect is a death metal band from Varpalota, Hungary, formed in 2020. The band channel uncompromising death metal heaviness from the Hungarian underground.
Dissected is a death metal and grindcore band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2021. The band deliver relentless extreme metal at the intersection of brutal death metal and grindcore intensity.
Dissected Flesh is a death metal and grindcore band from Brno, Czech Republic, formed in 2025. Their debut "Deliverance in Suffering" packs twelve tracks of extreme brutality into a concise 26-minute assault.
Dissector is a thrash and technical death metal band from Split, Croatia, active since 2007, evolving from straightforward thrash into technical death metal territory. The band represent the long-running extreme metal tradition of the Dalmatian coast.
Dissector is a black/death metal band from Pelotas, in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, formed in 2007. The band is registered on Encyclopaedia Metallum among several acts sharing the name from different countries, representing the extreme metal underground of southern Brazil. They have released material on Bandcamp before splitting up.
Dissectrophy is a technical death metal band from Preston, Lancashire, formed in 2011 by guitarists Matt Gornall and Matt Murphy, bassist Rhys Mather, and drummer Russell Sumner. They debuted with the video for Entombed at a Halloween show in 2011 and followed up with Fragmenting Reality (2012) and a 2013 demo recorded at Mill Rehearsal Studios.
Dissectum is a technical death metal band from Karlskrona, Sweden, formed in 2007. The project delivers technically precise death metal from the Blekinge coast.
Yuma, Arizona's Dissefacto have been doing something genuinely strange since 2014, pushing experimental metal into territories that resist easy categorization — a fitting output from one of the American Southwest's more isolated music scenes. Their work resists the comfort of genre convention, reflecting a willingness to rupture form rather than inhabit it.
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