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Dire End is a death metal/deathcore band from Bilbao, Spain, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh extremity to the Basque metal scene.
Dire Insanity is a metalcore and melodic death metal band from Kingston upon Thames, formed in 2013 and built around producer Kiran Weerasekera's compositions with vocalist Ben Davie and a multi-guitar lineup. The six-piece earned support slots with acts like Breed 77 and drew comparisons to In Flames and Dream Theater for their intricate, melodic approach.
Dire Necro Cerberus is a technical death metal project from Milan, Italy, formed in 2015. Uniquely blending extreme metal with classical music reinterpretation, the project features covers of Bach and Paganini alongside original compositions that bridge high art and death metal.
Dirty Dancing Pigs is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Krasnoyarsk, Russia, formed in 2018. The project delivers savage grinding death metal from central Siberia.
Dirty Demons is a death metal band from Pomigliano d'Arco, in the Naples province of Campania, Italy, formed in 2006. The project channels dark and brutal death metal from the Neapolitan underground.
Dirty Pot of Cum is a death metal/goregrind band from Bordeaux, France, formed in 2023. They deliver deliberately offensive goregrind extremity.
Greensburg, Indiana's Dis have been wielding black/death metal in the rural Midwest since 2018, an unlikely setting that only sharpens the isolation and fury in their sound. There is something fitting about extreme metal emerging from small-town Indiana — it sounds like it has nowhere else to go.
Disabled is a death metal band from Bordeaux, France, active since 2011. They deliver crushing death metal from southwestern France.
Disablust is a thrash/death metal band from Dijon, France, active since 2009. They play fierce thrash/death from the Burgundian capital.
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