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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
Featured Power Metal Album
Extreme Power Metal (2019)
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rosemary (2023)
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Drops of Heart plays melodic death metal, metalcore, and deathcore from Ufa in Bashkortostan, active since 2010. Their multi-genre approach channels emotional vulnerability through aggressive frameworks, suggesting that extreme metal can serve as an outlet for the heart's deepest wounds.
Dropthehammer is a death metal and grindcore band from Pula, Croatia, formed in 2017. The band deliver relentless extremity at the intersection of brutal death metal and grindcore.
Droste is a progressive deathcore band from Bordeaux, France, active since 2014. Named after the recursive visual effect, they push deathcore into progressive loops.
Portland, Oregon's Drown emerged in 2019 with funeral doom metal that takes its name and its mandate seriously — music designed to feel like submersion, all glacially slow tempos, cavernous low-end, and a suffocating emotional weight that discourages any notion of a quick listen. In a city with a rich experimental metal culture, they occupy the most extreme edge of slowness.
Drown in Blood is a death metal/crustcore band from Hamburg, Germany, active since 2010. They fuse death metal's heaviness with crust punk's raw, filthy energy.
Drown My Day is a melodic death metal, deathcore, and groove metal band from Krakow, Poland, formed in 2007. The project blends multiple extreme metal styles from the Lesser Poland capital.
Drowned by Darkness plays a multi-genre blend of melodic power, death, and thrash metal from Schwabisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg, active since 2013. This ambitious cocktail of genres creates compositions that shift between the soaring melodies of power metal and the crushing intensity of death and thrash.
Drowned in Despair is a death metal band from Grand Est, France, formed in 2020. They deliver despairing death metal from eastern France.
Drowned in Torment is a brutal death metal band from Manchester, formed in 2025 at college by drummer-vocalist Harrison Kershaw, guitarist Tommy Heyes, and bassist Will Watts. Their debut single Bathing in Fluoroantimonic Acid captures the raw energy of the trio's earliest compositions, with all production handled in-house.
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