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Dissidium is a death metal band from João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, formed in 2013 and currently active. An earlier project under the same name from the same city released the EP "Danse Macabre" in 2009, a horror-themed record drawing lyrical inspiration from classic slasher film characters such as Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers. The band operates within the underground death metal scene of northeastern Brazil.
Dissocia is a progressive death metal/deathcore band from Spain, emerging in 2025. They push extreme metal into ambitious progressive territory.
San Diego's Dissolution have been crafting death metal since 2014, operating in a city with a deep extreme metal underground that has quietly shaped the West Coast scene for decades. Their approach draws from the genre's murky, sepulchral tradition, building on San Diego's rich history of bands willing to push death metal into uglier, more suffocating territory.
Dissolution is a death metal band from Olomouc, Czech Republic, formed in 2014. They craft dark, heavy death metal with an emphasis on atmosphere and punishing heaviness.
Dissolve is a progressive death metal band from Rennes, France, active since 1993. With over three decades of activity, they are pioneering practitioners of French progressive death metal.
An avant-garde black metal entity from Antwerp signed to Brucia Records, Dissolve Patterns released their self-titled debut in April 2022 and earned attention for merging black metal aggression with progressive structures, jazz influences, and the cello of bandmember Annabel as a central melodic voice. Their lyrics draw on ancient symbolism, folkloric tales, and goddess-centered imagery, threading conceptual depth through a relentlessly harrowing sonic assault.
Dissolved is a thrash metal band from Lodz, Poland, formed in 2000. One of the veteran thrash acts in central Poland, the project has delivered over two decades of aggressive thrash metal.
Dissolved in Conscience is an experimental funeral doom and drone metal project from Minsk, Belarus, creating slow, crushing soundscapes since 2012. Their debut demo features extended compositions like the nearly eleven-minute 'Lost In Deep Space,' building oppressive atmospheres through minimal, glacial progression.
Dissolving is a melodic/progressive death metal band from Mainz, Germany, formed in 2022. They craft intricate, melodic death metal with progressive depth.
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