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Viribus Unitis (2025)
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Nihility (2002)
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Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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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.
Dismetry is a brutal death metal band from Syktyvkar, Russia, formed in 2015. The project delivers punishing brutal death metal from the Komi Republic.
Dissenter is a brutal death metal band from Wroclaw, Poland, formed in 2016. The project delivers punishing brutal death metal from the Lower Silesian capital.
Dissolving Entity is a brutal death metal band from Scotland, formed in 2025 by guitarists Daniel Scott and David Easton, vocalist Luke Lockley, and bassist George Lidster. Their debut EP Parasite Enthroned (2025) delivers three tracks of slamming brutal death metal produced by Easton and mastered by Lockley.
Ditchcreeper is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Southampton, England, formed in 2015. The band deliver relentless, punishing extremity at the intersection of grinding blast beats and brutal death metal low-end.
DopeHammer is a brutal death metal band from Leeds, England, formed in 2015, whose tongue-in-cheek release titles like Smoke Weed Worship Slam and West Yorkshire Slam Torture signal their allegiance to the slam death metal underground. Their catalog also includes Artificial Enresination and Spaced: The Final Bluntier.
Doprdele plays brutal death metal and grindcore from Taganrog on the Sea of Azov, active since 2021. Their deliberately crude Russian name drives music that matches its vulgarity with extreme sonic violence.
Dormant Carnivore plays slam/brutal death metal from Perm in the Urals, active since 2008 and channeling the hibernating predator of their name into ferocious, technically demanding compositions. Their sleeping-killer imagery suits music that lies in wait before delivering devastating bursts of brutality.
Downthroat plays brutal death metal from Anadia in the Beira region, active since 1999 and among Portugal's longest-running brutal death metal acts. Over a quarter century they've maintained an unwavering commitment to the genre's most punishing extremes.
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