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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Devour is a groove metal/hard rock band from Glasgow, Scotland, active since 2013. They devour through heavy grooves from Scotland's largest city.
Dewmore is a heavy and groove metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2020. The band combine the weight of heavy metal riffing with the rhythmic punch of groove metal.
Dexidia is a thrash/groove metal band from Gijón, Spain, active since 2011. They deliver heavy thrash and groove from the Asturian coast.
Dfront SA is a death/groove metal band from Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2013, blending groove and death metal with hardcore and thrash influences and lyrics rooted in everyday life. The band has released at least two albums, including "Ceifado" (2021) and a follow-up titled "Forte Teor Da Dor."
A groove and thrash metal band from Antwerp, Diapolis released their New Millennium Crusade EP in September 2022 and have been recognized within the local scene as sharp purveyors of driving, riff-forward thrash. Unsigned and independent, they carry on the tradition of Antwerp's underground heavy music community.
Diavola plays groove metal and metalcore from Oslo, formed in 2022 and bringing a feminine Italian devil-name to Norway's diverse extreme metal scene. Their rhythmic, breakdown-heavy approach channels the confrontational energy of both genres through the Norwegian capital's cosmopolitan lens.
Dictatorshit is a thrash and groove metal band from Puerto Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Argentina, featuring vocalist Hernán Carbone, guitarists Ivan Sosa and Eduardo Farias, bassist Claudio Lemes, and drummer Bruno Carcamo. The band released their debut EP Exterminio in June 2012, recorded at Polymúsica Studios in Río Gallegos, followed by the two-track Masacre al Sur in 2016.
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter is a genre-defying band from Apolda/Weimar, Germany, active since 2003, whose sound evolved from death/folk metal into a massive blend of heavy, groove, and folk metal with rock. They are one of Germany's most adventurous and long-running metal acts.
Die in Agony is a melodic death/groove metal band from Augsburg, Germany, formed in 2020. They combine melodic death metal hooks with groove metal's rhythmic weight.
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