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Domain of Decay is a melodic death metal/deathcore band from Kiel, Germany, active since 2013. They merge melodic death metal's hooks with deathcore's devastating breakdowns.
Domains is a death metal band from Benetússer, Spain, active since 2009. They explore dark domains through crushing death metal from the Valencian area.
Domedagen is a death and doom metal band from Sweden, formed in 2018. The project merges death metal with doom metal's weight.
Domestic Violence plays thrash/death metal from Gilze in North Brabant, active since 2011 and channeling their provocative name's real-world horror into extreme sonic aggression. Their uncomfortably direct name gives their thrash/death hybrid an unsettling social dimension.
Domestic Waste is a death metal band from Wroclaw, Poland, formed in 2008. The project delivers aggressive death metal from the Lower Silesian capital.
Pittsburgh's Domicile formed in 2024, stepping into the city's proud tradition of underground death metal with a fresh sense of purpose. Still in their earliest days, they carry the gnarly, working-class aggression that Pittsburgh's heavy music scene has never shaken. Their death metal approach reflects a city that has always preferred its extremity unpolished and uncompromising.
Minneapolis's Domidium came together in 2023 weaving melodic death metal's Scandinavian sweep with the gut-punch immediacy of thrash and groove metal, making for a sound that refuses to settle into any single lane. The Twin Cities have a long history of nurturing technical, eclectic metal acts, and Domidium carry that forward with a multi-dimensional approach spanning four subgenres. They are one of the more compositionally ambitious young acts to emerge from the region's current scene.
Dominant plays death metal from Fredrikstad on the Oslo Fjord, active since 2014 and establishing supremacy through commanding, authoritative compositions. Their power-asserting name carries into music that seeks total dominion over the listener.
Dominated is a female-fronted death metal duo from Leeds, formed in 2023 by vocalist-bassist Vivian Waterman and guitarist-producer Julio Ruiz, born from the fusion of Greek and Argentine roots in the UK. Their debut album Cult Next Door (2024) and the 2025 single Unleash deliver relentless, uncompromising death metal channeling life's darkest moments into visceral soundscapes.
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