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Divine (2024)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Drops of Heart plays melodic death metal, metalcore, and deathcore from Ufa in Bashkortostan, active since 2010. Their multi-genre approach channels emotional vulnerability through aggressive frameworks, suggesting that extreme metal can serve as an outlet for the heart's deepest wounds.
Droste is a progressive deathcore band from Bordeaux, France, active since 2014. Named after the recursive visual effect, they push deathcore into progressive loops.
Drown My Day is a melodic death metal, deathcore, and groove metal band from Krakow, Poland, formed in 2007. The project blends multiple extreme metal styles from the Lesser Poland capital.
Stuart, Florida's Drowned Out blend deathcore's breakdown-driven architecture with the more technical vocabulary of death metal, a pairing they've been refining since 2015. Their sound lands in the brutal middle ground between the two genres — heavy enough for the pit, precise enough to reward close listening.
Dry My Tears is a deathcore band from Rouen, France, formed in 2019. They deliver emotional deathcore from the Norman capital.
DSM is a death metal/deathcore band from Lorraine, France, formed in 2022. They deliver diagnostic-grade death metal and deathcore.
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.
Dust You Turn Into is a death metal and deathcore band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2023. They pride themselves on defying easy genre classification while delivering heavy, conceptual music.
DVRK is a French deathcore and nu-metal band formed in 2019. The band fuses deathcore breakdowns with nu-metal grooves and bass music electronics, signed to Season of Mist and releasing their debut EP Infinite Reminiscence in June 2024. The six-track release tackles themes of addiction, depression, and loss, and features collaborations with vocalists from Conquer Divide and Chunk No Captain Chunk.
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