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Industrial deathcore out of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, DDM merges mechanized textures and programmed brutality with the pulverizing heaviness of death metal and deathcore. The result is cold, precise, and utterly unrelenting.
DDUP is a grindcore band from Zurich, Switzerland, active since 1997 and one of the country's longest-running extreme acts. With over two decades of relentless output, they deliver punishing blasts of noise and aggression in the grindcore tradition.
De Anima is a power metal band from Kouvola, Finland, formed in 2017. They deliver spirited power metal from the Finnish interior.
De Gevreesde Ziekte is a black metal act from Eindhoven whose Dutch name translates to "The Dreaded Disease," channeling pestilence and plague imagery through raw, atmospheric black metal. Founded in 2020, they add a distinctly Dutch-language voice to the European black metal underground.
De Halve Maan is a solo black metal project from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Igor Goularth in 2022. The project plays oldschool black metal with lyrical themes centered on the depletion of natural resources, anti-consumerism, starvation, and misery. Releases include the split "Fig. MMXXII" (2022) with Finnish band Haruspex Ritual and the two-track EP "Remnants of Human Action" (2023), both produced and recorded by Goularth himself.
De la Muerte is an Italian heavy metal band active since 2012 whose name — Spanish for "of death" — hints at a sound that leans darker and heavier than typical traditional metal. Their material channels classic heavy metal energy with a sinister undercurrent.
De Mortuis is a death metal band from Accrington, England, active since 2013. Their Latin name meaning 'of the dead,' they deliver death metal from Lancashire.
De Profundis is a melodic black metal band from Paris, France, active since 2007. Named after Oscar Wilde's prison letter, they deliver melodic black metal from the French capital.
De Profvndis Clamati is a funeral doom metal band from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, whose name is Latin for "Out of the depths I cry." The project blends dense orchestral arrangements and classical music influences with the slow, oppressive weight of funeral doom, drawing comparisons to Shape of Despair and Paradise Lost. Releases include the EP "In Between Passionate Minuendos" (2010) and the recording "The Transylvanian Mountainside Aria" (2013), with the band also appearing on the Brazilian doom metal compilation "Doomed Serenades" (2012).
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