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Daniel Wax Off is a thrash metal/crossover band from Dunbar, Scotland, active since 2012. They deliver energetic crossover thrash from the Scottish coast.
Danmaku is a thrash/death metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2022. Named after the Japanese bullet hell concept, they deliver rapid-fire metal from the West Midlands.
Danos is a black/thrash metal band from Emsdetten, Germany, formed in 2019. They deliver high-speed aggression that fuses black metal's cold fury with thrash metal's razor-sharp attack.
Darchitect is a death/thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2014 by Alex Marras, Gabe Gifoli, and Lucas Coca — alumni of bands Hawker Hart and Vennegorth. The band's name fuses "dark" and "architect," reflecting themes of hell, chaos, depression, and society; their debut album Mechanical Healing was released in March 2017 via Die Hard Records after being tracked at The Bunker studio in São Paulo.
Daretones is a thrash metal band from Hanover, Germany, active since 2009. They play aggressive, riff-driven thrash metal in the tradition of the German thrash school.
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa's Dark Agenda have been plotting their sonic course since 2023, combining thrash metal's velocity with groove metal's locking, headbang-inducing rhythms. The result is heavy music engineered from the ground up for live impact.
Boston's Dark Ages bring the storied New England aggression to thrash metal, operating since 2018 with the speed and hostility the genre demands from a city with a long memory for hard music. Old-school values delivered with regional intensity.
Dark Ages is a death/thrash metal band from Goiânia, Brazil, listed on Encyclopaedia Metallum since their early activity with demos including Wild and Dark Places and Pesadelo released in 2004, before re-emerging under their current active lineup. The band plays aggressive extreme metal rooted in the thrash and death traditions of the Brazilian metal underground.
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