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Dogma IVS is a melodic death metal and metalcore act from Goslar in the Harz Mountains, active since 1999 and among the longer-running bands bridging these two genres in Germany. Their quarter-century career spans the entire evolution of melodeath-influenced metalcore.
Dogmatic is a melodic death metal and thrash metal band from Sosnowiec, Poland, formed in 2023. The project channels aggressive melodeath and thrash from Upper Silesia.
Dogs of Gomorrah plays melodic death/thrash metal from Bremen, active since 2017 and channeling biblical destruction through aggressive, hook-laden compositions. Their name's reference to the doomed city adds apocalyptic weight to their riff-driven assault.
Domain of Decay is a melodic death metal/deathcore band from Kiel, Germany, active since 2013. They merge melodic death metal's hooks with deathcore's devastating breakdowns.
Minneapolis's Domidium came together in 2023 weaving melodic death metal's Scandinavian sweep with the gut-punch immediacy of thrash and groove metal, making for a sound that refuses to settle into any single lane. The Twin Cities have a long history of nurturing technical, eclectic metal acts, and Domidium carry that forward with a multi-dimensional approach spanning four subgenres. They are one of the more compositionally ambitious young acts to emerge from the region's current scene.
Dominia plays melodic death/gothic metal from Saint Petersburg, active since 2005 and among the city's most established extreme metal acts. Their two decades of output blend Gothenburg-style melodeath with dark, romantic gothic atmosphere from Russia's cultural capital.
Doom Rot plays melodic death metal from Moscow, active since 2019. Their decay-themed name contrasts with the melodic beauty they weave through aggressive death metal frameworks, creating compositions that find brightness within decomposition.
East Brunswick, New Jersey's Doss has been navigating an ambitious stylistic intersection since 2014, blending the melodic sweep of Gothenburg-influenced death metal with the technical complexity of prog and the sheer brutality of deathcore. New Jersey's underground has always punched above its weight, and Doss exemplifies why — bands from this corridor take sonic range seriously, refusing to be pinned to a single aesthetic. The result is music that shifts registers with confidence, equally capable of a crushing chug and an arching melodic passage.
Downcast Twilight is a melodic death and folk metal project from Birmingham, founded in December 2015 by OG in collaboration with author Marios Koutsoukos, and signed to Stygian Crypt Productions by the end of 2016. Each release explores a different historical era and civilisation, as heard on Wrath of the Anunnaki, Under the Wings of the Aquila, and Alba gu Brath.
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