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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.
Danishmendt is an industrial blackened sludge metal/post-hardcore band from Paris, France, formed in 2021. They create a volatile fusion of industrial textures, blackened sludge, and post-hardcore.
Daniverse is a progressive metal project from Braga in northern Portugal, formed in 2023 and exploring expansive, cerebral compositions. Their name suggests a personal sonic universe built by its creator — a fitting description for a project-driven vision of progressive metal.
Shreveport, Louisiana's Dankhdjinn channel the bayou's oppressive humidity into doom and sludge metal of considerable weight, their sound as mired and slow as the land they come from. Active since 2015, they embody the Southern heavy underground's dirtiest traditions.
Danko Jones are a Toronto hard rock band whose identity rests on riffs, attitude, and a belief that rock songs should get to the point quickly. Formed in 1996 around singer and guitarist Danko Jones, bassist John Calabrese, and a rotating drum seat, the band built its reputation through relentless touring and compact records that draw from garage rock, punk, heavy metal, boogie, and classic hard rock. Albums such as Born a Lion, We Sweat Blood, Sleep Is the Enemy, Below the Belt, Rock and Roll Is Black and Blue, Fire Music, A Rock Supreme, Power Trio, Electric Sounds, and Leo Rising show remarkable consistency: loud guitars, sharp grooves, lust, humor, confidence, and choruses made for clubs as much as festivals. Danko Jones fit hard-rock scope directly, with enough punk urgency and metal fandom to connect across heavier scenes. The band's strength is economy. Songs rarely overstay, riffs are built to move, and Jones' vocal persona treats rock and roll as both craft and confrontation. Their catalog is a long argument for simplicity done with conviction, volume, and sweat.
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.
DannaH Project is an instrumental heavy/post-metal project from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, formed in 2016. Performing without vocals — described as "no voice, no face, just lights and shadows through the sound" — the project blends aggressive and melancholic passages across a prolific output that includes the 2024 album All Empires Must Fall, their eighth release, recorded at Ilha do Fuzz Estúdio in Belo Horizonte.
Dannhad is a Sardinian depressive black metal project whose releases Rebirth and The End... explore themes of melancholy and psychological descent, guided by the philosophy that "only towards the long ways of the unconscious can you find real salvation." Their atmospheric approach emphasizes emotional weight and introspective darkness over sheer aggression.
Tampa heavy metal act Danny Castro brings a direct, no-frills approach to the genre, grounding big riffs and forceful delivery in the kind of straightforward songcraft that defined hard rock's most powerful eras. The project has been in motion since 2015.
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