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Den of Iniquity is a black/death metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2020. They forge a sinister blend of black and death metal from the Rhineland underground.
Denat THC is a doom, sludge, and stoner metal band from Bielsko-Biala, Poland, formed in 2024. The project channels heavy, fuzzed-out doom and stoner riffs from the Silesian Beskids.
Denata is a death and thrash metal band from Linkoping, Sweden, formed in 2012. The project fuses death metal with thrash velocity.
Los Angeles grindcore outfit Denature have been conducting sonic autopsies since 2016, channeling the city's underground violence into blasts of precision-engineered noise and fury. Their grind is tight and technically minded while retaining the essential brutality that makes the genre function as a form of protest.
Dendera formed in Portsmouth and developed from a classic heavy metal-minded group into a more modern melodic metal band without losing their taste for big choruses and guitar-driven drama. Their early EP We Must Fight and debut album The Killing Floor introduced a sound rooted in galloping rhythms, twin-guitar leads, and high-register vocals, drawing energy from traditional British metal and power metal. Pillars of Creation broadened the songwriting with more aggressive riffing and a larger sense of scale, while the Blood Red Sky material showed the band moving toward darker tones and a sharper modern edge. Mask of Lies marked a heavier and more contemporary phase, bringing together clean vocals, screams, polished production, and songs shaped by personal conflict, resilience, and pressure. Dendera's strength has always been the combination of musicianship and directness: they write with the precision of a metal band that values solos and layered arrangements, but their hooks are built to land immediately in a live setting.
Santa Rosa, California's Dendra picked up crossover thrash's anarchic baton in 2019 and ran with it headlong into the pit — channeling the DIY fury of hardcore while maintaining the metallic chops that keep the riffs memorable and the neck snapping. Northern California's wine country proves it can produce something considerably more dangerous.
Dendrites is a groovy stoner rock and southern metal band from Volos, Greece, formed in 2016, featuring vocalist-guitarist Thanasis Timplalexis and a five-piece lineup including creative member Ioannis Valiakos. Their 2019 album Grow was recorded at Red Goat Studios in Volos and mastered by Steve Lado, earning international critical acclaim for its blend of stoner rock, desert rock, and heavy blues.
Dendrophilia is a post-metal and sludge metal band from Portalbera, in the Pavia province of Lombardy, Italy, formed in 2014. Their album 'Soak Up the Sun' blends alternative noise, sludge, and stoner elements into an eclectic and crushing sonic brew.
Detroit's Dendura have been one of progressive metal's more intriguing outliers since 2004, weaving Middle Eastern tonalities and scales into a framework that stretches far beyond the genre's Western defaults. The result is a singular sound rooted in Motor City heaviness but drawing melodic inspiration from a far broader global palette.
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