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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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A solo technical and progressive death metal project based in Portland, Oregon, Dustin Behm has been releasing intricate, guitar-forward material since 2017, pushing the genre's compositional boundaries with dense arrangements and demanding musicianship.
Duwarhk is a death/black metal band from Béthune, France, formed in 2018. They deliver extreme metal from northern France's mining country.
Dvm Spiro is a death and doom metal band from Turin, Italy, formed in 2019. The project merges death metal's aggression with doom metal's crushing weight from the Piedmontese underground.
Dvorhead is a brutal death metal band from Metz, France, active since 2002. With over two decades of brutality, they are veteran practitioners of French death metal.
Dvota is a death, groove, and progressive metal band from Bratislava, Slovakia, formed in 2022. The project blends multiple metal styles from the Slovak capital.
Dvplo plays death metal from the Horst/Lottum area of Limburg, active since 2009 and delivering focused, uncompromising extreme metal from the southeastern Dutch borderlands. Their long tenure in the Limburgish underground speaks to a persistent dedication to death metal's punishing craft.
Dvshegvb plays black/death metal from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2025 and whose consonant-heavy name strips away readability much as their music strips away convention. Their deliberately unpronounceable name matches the dissonant hostility of their extreme metal.
DVVAD is a death/black metal band from Szeged, Hungary, formed in 2018. The band merge the ferocity of death metal with the atmospheric darkness of black metal.
Dwell is a doom/death metal band from Aarhus, Denmark, formed in 2017. They craft massive, slow-burning doom death from Denmark's cultural capital.
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