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Dr. Zaius is a grindcore band from Santiago, Chile, tracing their roots to the early 1990s underground act Proteus Mirabilis before continuing under the Dr. Zaius name from 2000 onward. The band released the EP "Music From My Fist" in 2006 and the "Sociedad Infectada" EP in 2016, both recorded in Santiago and self-released through their own SIMIO DEMENTE Productions imprint.
Dracarys is a melodic death metal band from Trondelag, Norway, formed in 2015. The project channels Scandinavian melodic death metal from the central Norwegian region.
Draconia is a melodic death metal band from Turku, Finland, active since 2013. They play powerful melodic death metal from Finland's medieval capital.
Draconian Reign is a symphonic deathcore band from Nottingham, self-described as hailing from "the cold heart of the United Kingdom." Their releases It Came from Hell (2022), Necromantic (2022), and Tragedy Eternal (2023) fuse symphonic grandeur with deathcore brutality.
One of the longer-running acts in the American black/death underground, Temecula, California's Draconis have been forging their sound since 1998, navigating the tension between the corrosive atmospherics of black metal and the punishing technicality of death metal across nearly three decades. Their Southern California origin — far from the genre's Scandinavian birthplace — lends their work a sun-bleached ferocity that's distinctly their own.
Draconis is a melodic death metal band from Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, founded in 2003 by vocalist/guitarist Gerardo Vargas alongside Bruno Vargas (guitar), Marcos Villarroel (bass), and César Román (drums). The band has released five studio albums, including "The Awakening of the Deads" (2014), "Spreading the Virus" (2017), "Anthems for an Eternal Battle" (2020, Brutal Records), and "We Are the Virus" (2025), and has shared stages with international acts including Amon Amarth and At the Gates.
Heavy Progressive Rock (early); Death Metal, Ambient / Neoclassical (later) from Fort Worth.
Draegloth is a death metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne, formed in 2017. Their debut EP The Beginning of the End... delivers four tracks of melodic death metal across nearly eighteen minutes, including the ominous Reactor No.4.
Drag the Lake is a death/thrash metal band from Nottingham, England, formed in 2012. The band combine the bludgeoning heaviness of death metal with thrash metal's velocity in their independently released output.
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