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Diavola plays groove metal and metalcore from Oslo, formed in 2022 and bringing a feminine Italian devil-name to Norway's diverse extreme metal scene. Their rhythmic, breakdown-heavy approach channels the confrontational energy of both genres through the Norwegian capital's cosmopolitan lens.
Diavolos is a death/black/thrash metal band from Greece, featuring Tas Danazoglou (Satan's Wrath, ex-Electric Wizard) and Taneli Jarva (ex-Sentenced, ex-Impaled Nazarene). Their 2015 album You Lived Now Die, released through Hells Headbangers, delivers ten tracks of filthy 1980s-inspired extreme metal drawing from Bathory, early Onslaught, and Possessed.
Dicentress is a band from Eisenach, Germany, formed in 2018, whose sound evolved from black metal roots into melodic doom metal. Their stylistic shift reflects a journey from raw aggression toward melancholic heaviness.
Dicephal Mortus is an industrial black metal project from Berlin, Germany. Its recordings include IICM, Von Nachgeburt und Dreck und Atem and Nach mir die Fliegen. The project's music brings black metal together with industrial noise, death industrial and power electronics, extending beyond a conventional metal-band setup.
Dicephalus is a death metal and goregrind project from Indaiatuba, São Paulo, Brazil. The project released the album "Pathological Atrocities in Clandestine Hospitals" through Cemitério Records and Rotten Foetus Records, a seven-track release fixated on pathology, disease, and corpse decomposition in the vein of brutal goregrind.
Diceratops is a progressive heavy metal and hard rock band from Leicester, England, formed in 2012. The band blend progressive song structures with classic heavy metal and hard rock sensibilities in their independently released material.
A black metal band from Vienna, Austria, operating in the city's underground metal circuit. The band's Bandcamp page hosts their catalog of dark, raw material within the Austrian black metal tradition.
Phoenix's Dichotomize have been sharpening their death metal sound since 2022, developing in the heat-blasted Arizona underground where the genre has quietly maintained a dedicated following. Their approach favors raw aggression and density, cutting against the grain of the state's more polished metal acts.
Dichotomy is a melodic and technical death metal band from Dublin, Ireland, formed in 2011. The band blend intricate technical passages with melodic death metal sensibility.
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