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Damas is a thrash/heavy metal band from Marseille, France, active since 2011. They deliver Mediterranean thrash and heavy metal from France's port city.
Muskegon, Michigan's Damascus have carved out a decade-plus career in melodic heavy metal, balancing accessible hooks with enough muscle to satisfy the hard rock and metal overlap. Their sound favors melody and clean production within a traditional heavy metal framework.
Damask plays a volatile mix of speed, heavy, and black metal from Volgodonsk in Rostov Oblast, active since 2019. Their city — built to house workers for a nuclear power plant — lends industrial-age intensity to their triple-genre attack.
Damiano Biasutto is a solo instrumental metal guitarist and composer from San Giovanni al Natisone in Friuli, whose albums Powered by Steel, Dangerous Railway, and Minstrel of the Dark showcase his technical prowess across a range of heavy metal styles. His compositions emphasize melodic lead guitar work and steely riff construction without the need for vocals.
Damnatio is a heavy/thrash/alternative metal band from Baix Llobregat, Spain, formed in 2023. They blend thrash aggression with alternative metal's accessibility.
Damnation Gallery storms out of Genoa with a caustic blend of heavy and blackened thrash metal, marrying the galloping riffs of traditional heavy metal with the venom and velocity of black-thrash. Their sound sits at the crossroads of NWOBHM worship and first-wave black metal ferocity.
Los Angeles' Damnation Overthrowne emerged in 2026 at the raw, energetic overlap of thrash and traditional heavy metal, channeling the street-level urgency of the LA metal scene into a sound that honors its predecessors without merely imitating them.
Damned Nation plays heavy metal from Stockholm, formed in 2026 and carrying the torch for classic Swedish heavy metal in a scene dominated by extreme genres. Their nation-under-judgment name adds apocalyptic weight to traditional riff-driven compositions.
Dan Dark plays heavy metal from Gothenburg, formed in 2024 and delivering classic heavy metal from one of Scandinavia's most metal-saturated cities. His personal-name project brings individual artistic vision to the traditional metal format.
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