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Agamemnon (2025)
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This Godless Endeavor (2005)
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Drovich plays black/death/thrash metal from Dokkum in Friesland, formed in 2022 and attacking from three extreme metal directions simultaneously. Their multi-genre assault channels the fierce independence of Frisian culture into uncompromising sonic violence.
Dreor is a death metal band from Nottingham, formed in 2023 and rooted in old-school death metal influences including Autopsy, Obituary, Jungle Rot, and Benediction. Their releases Hell's Kitchen and The Terror Rises channel the classic sound of early 1990s death metal from the East Midlands.
DSKNT is a death/black metal project from Sion in the Valais canton, active since 2017 and producing some of Switzerland's most dissonant and unsettling extreme metal. Their consonant-only name strips away accessibility, much like their music strips away convention in favor of abrasive, avant-garde extremity.
Dskrtn is a black/death metal and noise project from Athens, Greece, formed in 2025. The project pushes extreme metal into abrasive noise territory at the intersection of black and death metal.
DSM is a death metal/deathcore band from Lorraine, France, formed in 2022. They deliver diagnostic-grade death metal and deathcore.
Lewisville, Texas-based Duality formed in 2020 with a sound that pushes progressive and melodic death metal into ambitious, technically demanding territory. Layered song structures and melodic guitar work give their death metal a cinematic quality uncommon for a band so early in their existence. They represent the thoughtful, arrangement-conscious strand of the DFW metal underground.
Dubiosis is a death metal band from the Gera/Jena area of Germany, active since 2013. They play intense death metal from Thuringia's underground.
Out of Toms River, New Jersey since 2013, Due for Extinction have carved out a lane in the overlap between technical death metal and deathcore, where surgical precision and sheer sonic punishment coexist. Over a decade into their run they have refined an approach that prizes complexity without sacrificing weight. They are one of the more durable acts in Jersey's extreme metal community.
Dugout plays death metal from Zeya and later Blagoveshchensk in Russia's Amur Oblast on the Chinese border, active since 2011. Their military-trench name drives compositions of focused aggression from one of Russia's most remote Far Eastern outposts.
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