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Diathesis is a London-based technical death metal band formed in 2010, featuring vocalist Ross Hurrell and guitarist Paul Voulgaridis among their lineup. Their debut release The Inception showcases a blend of technical death metal and progressive metal influences across six tracks of intricate, aggressive material.
Diatonic is a death metal band from Sweden, formed in 2020. The project delivers aggressive Swedish death metal.
Diatryma is a death and thrash metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2024. The project fuses death metal with thrash velocity.
Diavok was a death metal band from Porto Feliz, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2021. The band released a self-titled debut demo, "Demo I," in March 2021 before splitting up.
Diavolos is a death/black/thrash metal band from Greece, featuring Tas Danazoglou (Satan's Wrath, ex-Electric Wizard) and Taneli Jarva (ex-Sentenced, ex-Impaled Nazarene). Their 2015 album You Lived Now Die, released through Hells Headbangers, delivers ten tracks of filthy 1980s-inspired extreme metal drawing from Bathory, early Onslaught, and Possessed.
Dicephalus is a death metal and goregrind project from Indaiatuba, São Paulo, Brazil. The project released the album "Pathological Atrocities in Clandestine Hospitals" through Cemitério Records and Rotten Foetus Records, a seven-track release fixated on pathology, disease, and corpse decomposition in the vein of brutal goregrind.
Phoenix's Dichotomize have been sharpening their death metal sound since 2022, developing in the heat-blasted Arizona underground where the genre has quietly maintained a dedicated following. Their approach favors raw aggression and density, cutting against the grain of the state's more polished metal acts.
Dichotomy is a melodic and technical death metal band from Dublin, Ireland, formed in 2011. The band blend intricate technical passages with melodic death metal sensibility.
Dickless Tracy is a death metal and grindcore band from Brezice, Slovenia, formed in 2009. The project delivers savage grinding death metal from the Posavje region.
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