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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Disease Gunthaar is a thrash metal/crossover/grunge band from Besançon, France, emerging in 2025. They blend thrash, crossover, and grunge into a diseased cocktail.
Dishonour the Crown is a crossover thrash, hardcore punk, and death metal band split between South Wales and London, formed in 2012 and driven by writer-producer Ron D. Their 2018 debut album The English Way spans eleven tracks of politically charged, groove-heavy thrash inspired by Pantera, Biohazard, and Napalm Death.
Disorder Bones is a thrash metal/crossover band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2018. They play energetic crossover thrash from the Catalan capital.
Disturbing Foresights is a thrash/crossover/hardcore act from The Hague, one of the Netherlands' longest-running extreme bands with roots stretching back to 1993. Over three decades they've maintained a furious commitment to high-energy, punk-infused thrash from the Dutch political capital.
Disurban is a thrash metal and crossover band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2020. The band merge the speed and aggression of thrash metal with the punk energy of crossover.
Divulgator is a crossover thrash band from Modena, Italy, formed in 2021. The project fuses thrash metal's velocity with punk energy from the Emilia-Romagna underground.
Out of Venice, Florida, Dominant Force blur the lines between crossover thrash, hardcore punk, and straight-up metal with the chaotic energy the genre demands. Formed in 2018, they carry the pit-starting ethos of classic NYHC crossover acts filtered through Florida's sweat-drenched, no-nonsense underground. Their approach is fast, physical, and uninterested in subtlety — a machine built exclusively for live punishment.
Doom Patrol is a crossover thrash and speed metal band from Padua, Italy, formed in 2017. The project merges speed metal's velocity with crossover punk energy from the Veneto scene.
Doze is a thrash/black metal and crossover band from Cugand, France, active since 2012. They deliver a volatile mix of thrash, black metal, and crossover.
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