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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Direct is a Prague-based heavy/power metal band active since 2014, delivering straightforward, high-energy metal with the directness their name promises. Their compositions favor the classic European approach of twin-guitar harmonies, soaring vocals, and galloping rhythms.
Dirge Eternal is a heavy metal band from Riihimäki, Finland, emerging in 2025. They play enduring heavy metal dirges.
Dirty Blade is a heavy metal band from Montopoli in Val d'Arno, in the Pisa province of Tuscany, Italy, formed in 2016. The project delivers hard-hitting heavy metal with a raw and aggressive Tuscan edge.
Dirty Jack is a heavy metal and hard rock band from Manchester, England, formed in 2011 with a seven-member lineup including vocalist Rivkah. Their self-titled EP features five tracks spanning power metal riffing and hard rock hooks across twenty minutes of material.
Dirty Rockers is a heavy metal band from Florence, Italy, formed in 2010. The project delivers gritty and high-energy heavy metal from the heart of Tuscany.
Dirty Room is a thrash and crossover metal band from Buenos Aires featuring vocalist Leandro Laudonia, guitarist Luciano Vazquez Lococo, bassist Tulio Navia, and drummer Emanuel Vazquez Lococo. The band released their debut EP Conspiracy & Doomsday in August 2016 and followed it with the full-length Nevercops in March 2018.
Dirty Rose is a heavy metal band from West Lothian and Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2021, featuring members Sven Smith, Ben Draper, Jack Price, and Rory Levell. Their debut album Rock & Roll Is My Religion (2021) spans eleven tracks of riff-driven metal with hard rock and glam influences.
Disaffection is a heavy metal band from Nassjo, Sweden, formed in 2017. The project delivers classic heavy metal from the Smaland region.
Discharge is the legendary hardcore punk and D-beat band from Stoke-on-Trent, founded in 1977 by Terence "Tezz" Roberts and Royston "Rainy" Wainwright, widely credited as pioneers of the D-beat subgenre. Their later output incorporated heavy and thrash metal elements, and the band remain active with European touring dates into 2026 and releases including War Is Hell and Disensitise.
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