Disaster Area were a skate punk band from Berlin, Germany.

Disaster Area is also an up-and-coming power metal band from Melbourne, Australia.

Disaster Area are a heavy metal/ hard rock band from Scotland, incorporating nwobhm and early glam metal influences, and featuring members of Common Gods and Whyte Tiger.

Likely named for the "plutonium rock" band of the same name in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, which was described as "not only the loudest rock band in the Universe, but in fact the loudest noise of any kind at all". The fictional band had one song released in its name, "Only the End of the World Again", on a four-track EP, "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - TV Theme Music", in 1980. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.