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Dagger of Betrayal is a five-piece melodic death metal and metalcore band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2013, featuring guitarists Aggelos Tzamtzis and Antonis Kakaris, drummer Konstantinos Noulas, bassist Konstantinos Grousouzakos, and vocalist Antonis Dimitriou. Their debut album Paradox Hive (2013) was mixed and mastered by Stelios Koslidis.
Daggerheart is a thrash/death metal band from Nossendorf in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte region of Germany, formed in 2023. They deliver aggressive, hard-hitting metal that fuses thrash precision with death metal brutality.
Hermetic black metal project featuring drummer Antinom, who went on to form Vasaeleth. Active 2003-2009 before disbanding.
Dagor is an experimental death/black metal band from Mannheim, Germany, formed in 2021. They push the boundaries of extreme metal with avant-garde compositions that blur the lines between death and black metal.
Dagorquest rises from Modica in Sicily's Ragusa province, forging a blackened death metal sound steeped in aggression and dark fantasy themes. Their music merges the blasting intensity of death metal with the tremolo-driven atmosphere of black metal in the tradition of the southern Italian underground.
Dagötkmelir is a black/death metal solo project from Santiago, Chile, created by Diego H. von Kunowsky. The project released a self-titled album on Bandcamp, operating in the underground extreme metal sphere with minimal public profile beyond that release.
Virginia's Dahmed tears through brutal death metal, deathcore, and hardcore without stopping to consider where one ends and the other begins — the result is chaotic, punishing, and deliberately overwhelming. Since 2017, they've built a reputation in the underground for unrelenting intensity.
DAI is a black-death metal band from Trutnov, Czech Republic, formed in 2017 and trafficking in dark, extreme metal with dystopian thematic undertones. Their compositions channel the ferocity of both black and death metal traditions through a Czech underground lens.
Saint Paul's Daigoro tear through the intersection of death metal brutality and grindcore velocity with thrash-sharpened riffs that refuse to let up. Formed in 2017, they bring a frantic, no-frills aggression to the Twin Cities underground.
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