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Dogtor is a heavy/speed metal and hard rock band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2019. They prescribe high-energy speed metal and hard rock.
Doom Patrol is a crossover thrash and speed metal band from Padua, Italy, formed in 2017. The project merges speed metal's velocity with crossover punk energy from the Veneto scene.
Doominator is a black/speed metal band from Chihuahua, Mexico, formed in 2011. After early demos including "Nachtmahr" (2017) and "Undead Invassion" (2018), the band released their debut full-length "Nocturnal Realm" in 2022, followed by a second full-length, "Summoning Black Evil," in 2023.
Forged in Chicago in 2021, Doomsday tears through the Midwest underground with a ferocious blend of speed and thrash metal that draws as much from early Slayer as from the first wave of power-speed crossovers. Their riffs hit with the urgency of a city that never coddles its heavy music, all breakneck tempos and serrated guitar work that leaves little room to breathe. It's lean, mean thrash built for the pit.
Doomsday is a speed/thrash metal band from Pilsen, Czech Republic, formed in 2021. They unleash fast, ripping thrash with the velocity and urgency of classic speed metal.
Out of Russellville, Arkansas, Dr. Butcher has been dealing in a particularly nasty strain of goregrind and death metal since 2011, built on surgical-grade brutality and an almost comedically grim aesthetic. The band's dedication to the uglier end of the death-grind spectrum keeps things deliberately primitive and visceral, with no interest in polish or subtlety.
Dr. Faust started as a speed/thrash metal act in the Black Sea resort of Sochi before evolving into death metal and grindcore. Active since 2016, their Faustian name — evoking the deal-with-the-devil legend — frames their genre transformation as a kind of bargain with extremity.
Dragon Lord is a power/speed metal band from Pamplona, Spain, formed in 2021. They deliver high-speed power metal from the ancient Navarrese capital.
A speed and power metal band from Jurbise, Hainaut formed in 1983, Drakkar are among Belgium's most enduring heavy metal acts, their first demo produced by Scorpions drummer Rudy Lenners and leading directly to a deal with Mausoleum Records and the 1988 debut X-Rated. The band subsequently opened for Metallica, Queensrÿche, Overkill, and Slayer, and remains active today with albums including Once Upon a Time... in Hell! (2014) and Diabolical Empathy (2017).
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