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Distant Sun is a power and thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2016. The project merges power metal's grandeur with thrash aggression.
Distant Thunder is a speed/thrash metal act from Gronau on the Dutch-German border, formed in 2025 and channeling the approaching-storm energy their name evokes. Their sound delivers the first rumbles of a sonic tempest built on lightning-fast riffs and pummeling rhythms.
Blistering Heavy / Thrash Metal from Houston.
Disterror is a black/thrash metal and crust punk band from Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico, formed in 2010. Their debut full-length "Catharsis" appeared in 2015, and they released the EP "Revealing Darkness" in 2025. Their catalog blends black metal, thrash, and crust punk elements.
Distinct Cult is a black/thrash metal band from Leipzig, Germany, active since 2008. They forge a distinctive blend of black and thrash metal from Saxony's underground.
Distinct Way is a heavy and thrash metal band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2016. The project blends classic heavy metal with thrash metal aggression from the Polish capital.
Distort is a thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2013 by members with ties to the city's established extreme metal scene. The band played aggressive, straightforward thrash metal and was active as an independent act before splitting up. They are documented on Encyclopaedia Metallum among the wave of São Paulo thrash acts that emerged in the early 2010s.
Santa Fe, New Mexico's Distorted Evil fuse black metal's cold fury with thrash metal's driving aggression, a blackened thrash approach that suits the high desert isolation their hometown provides. Formed in 2022, they've leaned into the raw, rehearsal-tape energy that makes the subgenre's best material feel genuinely dangerous rather than polished into submission.
Distorted Memories is a melodic thrash/death metal band from Besançon, France, formed in 2020. They deliver distorted melodic aggression from the Franche-Comté region.
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