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Dweller is a doom/death metal band from Kildare, Ireland, formed in 2019. The band fuse the crushing weight of doom with death metal ferocity.
Frederick, Maryland's Dweller in the Valley has navigated the crossroads of black, death, and doom metal since 2013, weaving together extremity and desolation into a sound that is as bleak as the genre tags suggest.
Taking their name from Jewish folklore's restless spirit, Boulder, Colorado's Dybbuk have woven together Viking, folk, and black metal since 2012, creating a distinctly atmospheric brand of pagan metal grounded in mythological imagery and sweeping melodic sensibility.
Dychosis is a death/thrash metal band from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, formed in 2017, featuring members Lee Whitaker, Garth Wray, Saleem Qureshi, Simon Brooks, and lyricist James Quartermaine. Their debut single Isolation was recorded at DC Studios in Barnsley and mixed by Jack Helliwell.
Dyes is a melodic death metal band from Finland, active since 2010. They color death metal with melodic dye from the Finnish underground.
Based out of Chinle, Arizona — a town deep within the Navajo Nation — Dyfrost has been developing their brand of melodic death metal since 2015, bringing a perspective to the genre that is both geographically and culturally distinctive.
Dygora is a death metal and hardcore band from south London, formed in 2018, styling their sound as "Southside Death." Their releases include Chambers of Reflection, Ghetto Spiritual, Find Yourself (It Was a Trap), and Southside Tapes, with active live shows across London and Cambridge.
Formed in 2019 in Apple Valley, California, Dygra delivers death metal in the classic mold — heavy riffing, aggressive vocals, and a straightforward approach that favors crushing impact over genre experimentation.
A Collegeville, Pennsylvania death metal act formed in 2024, Dying Angel channels the old-school brutality of the genre's foundational era, favoring raw aggression and direct songwriting over modern technical showmanship.
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