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Dying Sun Mourning plays death/doom metal from Tambov in central Russia, active since 2013. Their elegiac name — mourning a dying sun — drives compositions of crushing weight and profound sorrow from the Russian Black Earth region.
Dying Vision is a melodic blackened death metal band from London, formed in 2014 by Richard Ashton. Their discography includes Univerself (2014), The Death and Its Slaughter (2020), and a third full-length in production, blending symphonic black metal with death metal across atmospheric, extended compositions.
Dying Wish is a melodic death metal band from Bourgoin-Jallieu, France, formed in 2018. They deliver emotive melodic death metal from the Isère region.
DyingBreed is a death metal band from São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The band released their album "Under a Black Sun" in 2018 through Black Hole Productions, a record recorded at Black Stork Studio and drawing comparisons to Brazilian death metal acts such as Krisiun and Rebaellium.
Dyinghost plays melodic death metal and metalcore from Saint Petersburg, active since 2015 and channeling spectral dissolution through melodic aggression. Their fading-apparition name suits music that moves between the corporeal violence of metalcore and the ethereal beauty of melodeath.
Dylath-Leen is an atmospheric death metal band from Cambrai, France, active since 2001. Named after Lovecraft's dreamland city, they have delivered atmospheric death metal for over two decades.
Dynamation is a death metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2015. They deliver explosive death metal with dynamic intensity.
Dyonide is a thrash and death metal band from Guildford, Surrey, formed in 2016. The band fuse the speed and precision of thrash metal with the heaviness of death metal in their aggressive output.
Dypherim is a blackened death metal band from Cork, Ireland, formed in 2020. The band deliver intense extreme metal at the crossroads of black and death metal.
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