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D'n'K is an extreme metal act from Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, operating in the space between melodic death, death metal, and thrash. The band represents a persistent underground scene in the Brčko region that has pushed against genre boundaries with a raw, DIY ethos.
D. Throne was a thrash metal band formed in Sarajevo in 1991, emerging in the shadow of Bombarder and Parasite — the city's first metal generation. Performing and recording through the Bosnian War years, the band documented the siege-era experience in songs like Story from Sarajevo, which appeared on the Radio Zid compilation Rock Under the Siege in 1995.
D.E.I.M.O.S. is a crossover thrash band from Szczecin, Poland, formed in 2000. One of the veteran crossover acts in the Polish underground, the project merges thrash metal with punk energy.
D.F.C., short for Distrito Federal Caos (Federal District Chaos), is a crossover thrash and hardcore band from Brasília, Brazil, widely regarded as one of the first hardcore punk and crossover bands to emerge from the country's capital. The band plays politically driven material with punk roots that evolved into a heavier thrash and crossover sound, and their catalog includes the albums "Tchan Nan Nan Nan Nan" and "Igreja Quadrangular Do Triângulo Redondo."
D.Hate is a groove and thrash metal band from Lviv, Ukraine, formed in 2003. One of the veteran groove/thrash acts from western Ukraine.
Poughkeepsie's D.I.E. bridges the gap between death metal's grinding brutality and thrash metal's kinetic, riff-driven fury. Their crossover attack is nasty and direct, built for pits rather than passive listening.
D.I.E. is a thrash metal band from Kiuruvesi, Finland, active since 2012. They deliver fierce thrash from the Finnish countryside.
D.I.Y. is a thrash metal and crossover band from Catania, Sicily, formed in 2018. The band fuse thrash metal speed with the punk energy of crossover from the Sicilian underground.
Destruccion Mutua Asegurada — D.M.A. — brings a bilingual fury to Medina, Ohio's scene, fusing crossover thrash's breakneck hardcore energy with proper thrash metal riffing. Active since 2021, they hit like a freight train and don't look back.
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