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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Drakwald is a pagan/melodic death metal band from Tours, France, active since 2014. They explore pagan themes through melodic death metal from the Loire Valley.
Drama Noir is a symphonic blackened death metal project from Corinth, Greece, founded in 2017 by Paul Papathanasiou. Their third album Nightfall Upon the Asylum (2023), released through Floga Records, explores gothic horror themes across nine tracks featuring orchestral arrangements by Mephisto and mixing by Psychon at SoundAbuse Productions.
Draped Urn is a black/death metal band from Brazil, formed in 2016. The band released their debut EP Degenerate in May 2016 and followed it with the split Punishment alongside Cvlpa later that same year, drawing on raw and extreme metal influences.
Rising from the Gulf Coast city of Gulfport, Mississippi, Draug has been carving out their corner of the American death metal underground since 2013. Their music channels the murky, oppressive atmosphere of the Deep South into a relentlessly brutal sound that feels both suffocating and primal. Named after the undead of Norse legend, they bring a mythic dread to a region more often associated with swamp-soaked doom.
Draught is a melodic speed/heavy/death metal band from Lappeenranta, Finland, formed in 2020. They blend multiple metal styles into a versatile Finnish sound.
Draugrath is a melodic death metal band from Northern Ireland, formed in 2023, delivering chilling melodies and searing aggression. Their growing catalog of tracks including Lost in Darkness, Resurrection, and Dead Rising establishes them as a rising force in the Northern Irish melodic death metal scene.
Draugrheim is a melodic death metal band from Colchester, East Anglia, formed in 2021 and steeped in Viking and Nordic themes. Their Sword Oath EP (2021) and the Blood & Steel double single (2024) range from mead-soaked feasting hall anthems to vicious, neck-snapping melodic death-thrash.
Drauliht is a melodic blackened death metal band from Böblingen, Germany, emerging in 2025. They fuse melodic hooks with the intensity of blackened death metal.
Dravernue is a melodic power metal band from Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, formed in 2019. They deliver soaring melodic power metal from the Basque coastal capital.
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