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A West Flanders extreme metal band from Kuurne and Wevelgem active from 1986 to 1993, Dreft evolved from raw grindcore in the late 1980s through death metal and eventually into doom-death, tracing a trajectory that mirrored the broader evolution of European extreme metal during that period. The band appeared on the 1990 compilation Morbid Noise – Abomination 4 and left behind rehearsal tapes from 1988 that document their earliest grindcore phase.
Dropthehammer is a death metal and grindcore band from Pula, Croatia, formed in 2017. The band deliver relentless extremity at the intersection of brutal death metal and grindcore.
Drugaddicted is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Florence, Italy, formed in 2025. The project channels savage grinding death metal extremity from the Tuscan underground.
Drunad plays death metal and grindcore from Russia, active since 2018 and delivering the rapid-fire extremity both genres demand. Their mysterious name channels an air of the ancient and unknown into modern sonic violence.
Drunk Diver is a grindcore, sludge, and stoner metal band from Lviv, Ukraine, formed in 2013. The project blends grinding extremity with sludge and stoner weight.
Dry Food for Dogs is a death metal and grindcore band from Turin, Italy, formed in 2014. The project delivers raw and visceral grinding death metal from the Piedmontese underground.
Dry Heave is a black/death metal and grindcore band from England, formed in 2014. The band merge the ferocity of black and death metal with grindcore's relentless blast-beat intensity.
DTI emerged from Lynnwood, Washington in 2019 at the crossroads of black metal's cold atmosphere and grindcore's blunt-force intensity. Their approach fuses blast-beat brutality and punk hostility with corrosive black metal textures, a combination that has flourished in the Pacific Northwest's underground. Short, vicious, and uncompromising.
Atlanta's Dungeon Filth wasted no time after forming in 2021, delivering the kind of grimy, fast-and-ugly hybrid of death metal and grindcore that the name promises without apology. Georgia's extreme underground has a history of unruly, low-fi nastiness, and Dungeon Filth fit squarely in that lineage — short blasts of putrid riffage with zero interest in accessibility. Pure cavern-dwelling brutality.
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