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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Dragdown is a thrash/death metal band from Liege in Wallonia, active since 2018 and pulling listeners into their vortex of aggressive, riff-heavy extreme metal. Their forceful name matches a sound designed to overwhelm through sheer velocity and weight.
Dragnet is a death metal and grindcore band from Florence, Italy, formed in 2019. The project delivers raw grinding death metal from the Tuscan underground.
Dragosariz is a death/thrash metal band from Norderstedt, Germany, active since 2010. They deliver fierce death/thrash from the outskirts of Hamburg.
Dragotherion is a death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2021. The band deliver punishing death metal rooted in the ferocity of the Greek extreme metal scene.
Dragula is a death metal band from Czestochowa, Poland, formed in 2011. The project delivers aggressive death metal from central Poland.
Drain of Impurity is a brutal death metal band from Ankara, Turkey, formed in 2001. One of Turkey's veteran extreme metal acts.
Drakh plays death metal from the Azores, active since 2018 and representing extreme metal's unlikely outpost in the mid-Atlantic volcanic archipelago. Their remote island setting lends genuine isolation to music already steeped in darkness.
Drakma is a melodic death/gothic metal band from Murcia, Spain, active since 2007. They blend melodic death metal with gothic grandeur from southeastern Spain.
Drakonis is a death and black metal band from Lisburn, Northern Ireland, formed in 2015, intentionally blending both genres without limiting themselves to one. Their albums Ravens Fuel the Sky and The Great Miasma create an atmospheric yet brutal sound that alternates freely between black and death metal styles.
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