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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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D.N.O. plays brutal death metal from the closed nuclear city of Snezhinsk in the Urals, active since 2018. Their remote, security-restricted hometown lends genuine isolation to music that few outside the scene will ever witness live.
D.O.S.E. is a death/thrash metal act from Kassel in Hesse, formed in 2022 and delivering potent injections of extreme metal aggression. Their acronym-as-name suggests carefully measured doses of sonic violence — concentrated and lethal.
D.R.A.B. plays death/black metal fused with hardcore punk from Stockholm, active since 2019. Their acronymic name and genre fusion create a confrontational sound that draws equally from Scandinavian extreme metal and hardcore's politically charged aggression.
D.R.I.L.L. — an acronym for Drilled Rests of Inhuman Lost Lives — is a death metal band from Arica, in Chile's far north. The band recorded 'Vicious Ruthless Bloodshed' at Sade Studios for drums and their own D.R.I.L.L. Studios in Arica for vocals and strings, with mixing and mastering by Juan Pablo Donoso.
D.R.Y. is a death metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2015. They deliver parched death metal from the French capital.
D.T.W. is a death metal and grindcore band from Nova Gorica, Slovenia, formed in 2018. The project delivers savage grinding death metal from the Italian border.
Dacast is a progressive death metal/deathcore band from Paris, France, active since 2012. They push deathcore into progressive death metal territory.
Daedrica is a death/groove/black metal band from Mieres in Asturias, active since 2013 and fusing three of extreme metal's most aggressive genres into a versatile hybrid. Their Elder Scrolls-referencing name hints at a fantasy-influenced imagination beneath the multi-layered brutality.
Daegonian is a Bari-based act whose 2024 debut Through the Great Beyond plunges into Lovecraftian cosmic horror, with tracks named after H.P. Lovecraft's mythos like "At the Mountains of Madness" and "The Court of Azathoth." Originally rooted in symphonic power metal, they shifted toward a heavier symphonic black/death metal sound built around expansive, narrative-driven songwriting.
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