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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.
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.
Dissonant Cognition is a melodic death metal band from Aberdeen, Scotland, formed in 2017. Their Defy the Tyrant EP channels melodic death metal aggression with the intensity of the Scottish underground metal scene.
Dissonanz is a black metal band from Germany, formed in 2019. They explore dissonant, unsettling black metal textures.
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