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Dysphasia is a melodic death metal band from Marly, France, formed in 2023. They deliver emotive melodic death metal from northern France.
East Chicago, Indiana death metal outfit active since 2010, Dysphoria draws from the region's industrial character to fuel a punishing and direct brand of death metal that values heaviness over ornamentation. Their location in the shadow of the Chicago metro places them within the broader Great Lakes extreme metal community.
Dysphoria is a death metal band from Schleswig, Germany, active since 2010. They channel despair and unease through powerful death metal.
Dysphorian Breed is a funeral doom and death metal band from Umea, Sweden, formed in 2014. The project crafts devastating doom from northern Sweden.
Dysphoric is a death metal/crust punk/grindcore band from Dresden, Germany, formed in 2021. They fuse the extremity of death metal and grindcore with crust punk's raw filth.
Chicago-based depressive black metal project formed in 2019, Dysphoric Entity channels the DSBM tradition's hallmark qualities — bleak atmosphere, anguished vocal delivery, and lo-fi rawness — through a distinctly urban lens. The project is a solitary, introspective exercise in despondency.
Dysphoric Mist is a one-person doom metal project from Hampshire, England, formed in 2020. Their seven-track debut demo, described as "a warning and an ultimatum from outer space," spans forty minutes of doom, sludge, and thrash across tracks like Tantalum Warriors and Charge of the Ibex, released on a limited cassette run of fifty copies.
Dysphrenia is a depressive black metal band from Turkey, formed in 2025. The project delivers anguished black metal.
Dysplaced is a deathcore band from Hanau, Germany, formed in 2024. They deliver devastating deathcore breakdowns and extreme aggression.
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