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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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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.
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.
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