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La Plata, AR · 2020–present · active
Displeasure is a grindcore and death metal band from La Plata, Buenos Aires, formed in 2020. They released the album "Enraizar el alma en lo complejo del odio" in February 2024 and contributed the track "Montañas de la locura" to the compilation "Sick Musik to Your Guts" later that year.
Salta, AR · 2017–present · active
Disrupcion is a melodic death metal band from Salta, Argentina, founded in 2017. Their debut album "Introspectiva" was released in February 2019, comprising nine tracks recorded, mixed, and mastered at Áureo Estudio in Salta between June and November 2018.
Pelotas, BR · 2007–present · split-up
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.
Valparaíso, CL · 2022–present · active
Dissident is a thrash metal band from Valparaíso, Chile, with roots tracing back to 1998 when founders Javier Pinilla and Yan Herrera Reese began playing under successive names before consolidating as Dissident around 2006. The band plays old-school, Bay Area-influenced thrash metal and has released the full-length "Unleash the Violence... In Thrash We Trust" (2015, Iron Blood and Death Corporation) and "Tus Balas Volverán" (2020).
João Pessoa, BR · 2013–present · active
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.
San Juan de Ambato, EC · active
Dissonant Structures is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Ambato, Ecuador. They released their debut EP, Forgive but Never Surrender, in 2019, blending the aggression of thrash with the melodic sensibilities of the Scandinavian death metal tradition.
São Paulo, BR · 2013–? · disbanded
Distort is a thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2013 by members with ties to the city's established extreme metal scene. The band played aggressive, straightforward thrash metal and was active as an independent act before splitting up. They are documented on Encyclopaedia Metallum among the wave of São Paulo thrash acts that emerged in the early 2010s.
Trelew, AR · 2012–present · active
Distortum is a grindcore and death metal band from Trelew, Chubut, one of the few extreme metal acts to emerge from Argentina's Patagonian interior. Their early demos "Descerebrado lentamente" (1996) and "Descomposición acelerada" (1997) established their place in the Argentine underground extreme metal scene of the 1990s.
Areia, BR · 2010–present · split-up
Distress is a death metal band from Areia, Paraíba, Brazil, with roots going back to 1995 and a reformed period beginning around 2010. The band's lyrical themes span human psychology, death, war, politics, and science, situated within the underground extreme metal scene of northeastern Brazil. They operated as an independent, unsigned act throughout their activity.

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