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Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Dust Bolt is a thrash metal band from Landsberg am Lech, Germany, active since 2012. They are one of the leading acts in Germany's modern thrash revival, delivering high-energy, riff-heavy thrash.
Dwail is a thrash/groove metal band from Toulouse, France, active since 2014. They deliver heavy grooves and thrash from southwestern France.
Dwimmerlaik is a power/thrash metal band from Igualada in Catalonia, active since 2001 and named after the wraith-like creatures from Tolkien's mythology. Their two-decade career has produced music that blends power metal's epic scope with thrash's aggressive edge, all filtered through a fantasy-literature lens.
Dychosis is a death/thrash metal band from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, formed in 2017, featuring members Lee Whitaker, Garth Wray, Saleem Qureshi, Simon Brooks, and lyricist James Quartermaine. Their debut single Isolation was recorded at DC Studios in Barnsley and mixed by Jack Helliwell.
San Francisco's Dying Breath launched in 2025 fusing the Bay Area's storied thrash tradition with groove metal's mid-paced, rhythmically locked riffing, occupying familiar but proven territory for the city's metal scene.
Dying Breed is a thrash metal band from Oxford, England, formed in 2017. The band deliver aggressive, riff-heavy thrash metal rooted in the genre's classic traditions.
Dying East is a death/thrash metal band from Zupanja, Croatia, formed in 2022. The band deliver aggressive death-thrash metal from the eastern Croatian underground.
Dying Flame plays groove/thrash metal and metalcore from Assen in Drenthe, active since 2008 and fusing three genres' aggressive qualities into high-energy compositions. Their extinguishing-fire name lends a sense of urgency to music that burns through its fuel with ferocious intensity.
Dying Hope is a death/thrash metal band from Pontivy, France, formed in 2016. They deliver hopeless aggression from the heart of Brittany.
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