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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Division Speed is a thrash/speed metal band from Neustadt an der Orla, Germany, active since 2009. They deliver blistering speed/thrash metal with relentless velocity.
Divulgator is a crossover thrash band from Modena, Italy, formed in 2021. The project fuses thrash metal's velocity with punk energy from the Emilia-Romagna underground.
San Francisco's Dizastor have been keeping Bay Area thrash's underground fires burning since 2013, operating in the direct lineage of a city that invented the genre's most aggressive permutations. Raw, fast, and built on the backbone of classic American thrash, they carry the tradition forward without nostalgia getting in the way of genuine aggression.
Dizattack is a thrash metal band from Vilnohirsk, Ukraine, formed in 2023. The project delivers aggressive thrash metal.
Dizzillusion is a blackened speed/thrash metal band from Giessen, Germany, formed in 2016. They fuse black metal's darkness with the breakneck pace of speed and thrash.
Djinn is a black, thrash, and speed metal band from Glenrothes, Scotland, formed in 2019. The band deliver a fierce combination of first-wave black metal aggression with the velocity of thrash and speed metal.
Doctor Death is a thrash metal band from London, formed in 2013. The band channel high-energy thrash with an aggressive, no-frills approach to riff-driven metal.
Doedsstraff plays black/thrash metal from Bergen, active since 2013 and whose Norwegian name — meaning "death penalty" — delivers capital punishment through extreme sonic violence. Their dual-genre assault combines black metal's atmospheric malice with thrash's execution-speed riffing.
Dogma Inc. is a grindcore and thrash metal band from Sala, Slovakia, formed in 2017. The project merges grinding extremity with thrash velocity.
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