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Danos is a black/thrash metal band from Emsdetten, Germany, formed in 2019. They deliver high-speed aggression that fuses black metal's cold fury with thrash metal's razor-sharp attack.
San Diego's Danse Macabre are one of the longer-tenured doom metal acts in California, operating since 1990 with the slow, heavy gravity the genre commands. Decades deep, their music moves like a funeral procession that refuses to end.
Dante is a progressive metal band from the Augsburg/Munich area, active since 2010 and building a substantial catalog of technically accomplished, emotionally nuanced compositions. Named after the Italian poet, their music shares The Divine Comedy's ambition to traverse vast emotional and structural landscapes.
Dantes Inferno is a black/death metal band from Wittlich, Germany, formed in 2021. They explore infernal themes through a punishing blend of black and death metal.
Oakland's Danuta bring a punk-laced rawness to stoner metal that keeps their fuzz-heavy riffs from ever getting too comfortable. Formed in 2022, the band embodies the Bay Area underground's instinct to smash genres together and see what survives.
After defining horror punk with the Misfits and exploring dark hardcore with Samhain, Glenn Danzig launched his self-titled band in Lodi, New Jersey in 1987, creating a blues-drenched, doom-laden heavy metal sound all his own. 'Mother' became one of the most iconic metal songs of the '90s, while albums 'Danzig II: Lucifuge' and 'Danzig III: How the Gods Kill' established him as metal's most compelling darkly romantic figure. His baritone croon and obsession with the occult created a template that countless bands have tried to replicate.
Minnesota's Danëǂi emerged from Maple Grove in 2024 crafting raw and atmospheric black metal that places emotional desolation ahead of technical ambition. The project channels the bleakness of the northern plains into something harrowing and unadorned.
Daoloth is a death metal band from Rødovre, Denmark, active since 2004. Named after the Lovecraftian entity, they play crushing death metal with cosmic horror themes.
Daorson is an Illyrian black metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 2015 and drawing from ancient and pagan themes. Their 2015 self-titled EP, recorded at Studio Veles and released on cassette by Wolfspell Records in a limited run of 100 hand-numbered copies, features three tracks of atmospheric black metal with poetry by bassist B.
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