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Daark is a thrash metal band from Bruck an der Mur in Styrian Austria, playing in the vein of late-1980s German and American thrash. The band channels nocturnal aggression into driving, riff-forward material distributed primarily through their Bandcamp page.
Dachau is a thrash metal band from Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, part of the city's persistent metal underground. The band plays aggressive, old-school thrash and maintains a Facebook presence that documents their activity in the local scene.
San Diego's Daemos has been running a meat-and-potatoes thrash operation since 2010, with a commitment to the genre's foundational values — fast riffs, relentless drumming, and no apologies. Southern California thrash has its own personality, and Daemos fits right in.
Philadelphia's Daeva is among the more exciting black/thrash acts to emerge from the East Coast underground, building on the ancient rites of Aura Noir and Nifelheim with their own fierce, forward-moving attack. Since 2011 they've become a reference point for the style's modern practitioners.
Daevas is a black/thrash metal band from the Dortmund/Wuppertal/Essen area of Germany, formed in 2024. They channel the ferocity of black metal through the speed and precision of thrash.
Dagara is a melodic death/thrash metal and hardcore band from Paris, France, active since 2011. They deliver a powerful fusion of melodic death metal, thrash, and hardcore.
Daggerheart is a thrash/death metal band from Nossendorf in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte region of Germany, formed in 2023. They deliver aggressive, hard-hitting metal that fuses thrash precision with death metal brutality.
Daggerose is a heavy and thrash metal band from Bratislava, Slovakia, formed in 2019. The project blends classic heavy metal with thrash aggression from the Slovak capital.
Schaumburg, Illinois' Dagoth channels the speed metal and thrash overlap where tempos hit maximum velocity and the riffs carry a razor-sharp urgency. Since 2018, they've embraced the more amphetamine-fueled end of the thrash spectrum.
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