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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Dakrya is an avant-garde and gothic metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2006. The band blend experimental compositional approaches with the dark atmosphere and melodic sensibility of gothic metal.
Dan Brudar plays avant-garde metal from Belgrade, active since 2018 and pushing the boundaries of what metal can accomplish through experimental, unconventional compositions. Their artistic approach treats metal as raw material for creative transformation rather than a set of genre rules.
Dark Heresy is an avant-garde death metal band from London, England, formed in 2019. They push death metal into daring avant-garde territory from the British capital.
DCLXVI plays avant-garde black metal from Moscow, formed in 2022 and whose Roman-numeral name spells out 666 — the Number of the Beast. Their avant-garde approach pushes black metal's boundaries through unconventional compositions that refuse to follow established templates.
Death Nazar plays avant-garde metal from Irkutsk near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia, active since 2015. Their Siberian location on the world's deepest lake provides a fitting backdrop for music that plumbs the depths of experimental metal.
Deemtee is an avant-garde black metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2019. They push black metal into experimental, avant-garde territory.
Demilich is a technical/avant-garde death metal band from Kuopio, Finland, active since 2014. They are celebrated for their distinctly alien approach to technical death metal, with bizarre vocal stylings and labyrinthine compositions.
Demimonde is an avant-garde metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2013 and pushing boundaries across death, doom, and gothic metal. Their genre-defying approach fuses experimental songwriting with the darkness and heaviness of multiple extreme metal traditions.
Denigrata is an avant-garde black metal band from Northampton, England, formed in 2015. They push black metal into avant-garde extremes from the English Midlands.
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