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Diatort was a death/thrash metal band from Passos, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Rooted in the extreme metal underground of the Brazilian interior, the band blended aggressive thrash riffing with death metal brutality before eventually splitting up.
Diatrekhon Aster is a depressive suicidal black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2017 by vocalist Methanal, multi-instrumentalist VII, and drummer Leliel. Self-described as "urban depressive suicidal black metal art," their releases Metroglodyte, An Ecosystem of Utility Poles, and Sons of the Lone Wolf explore the mental struggle of human existence within the cityscape.
Diatribes is a death/thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2014 by guitarist Gladyson Rivero alongside vocalist Danilo Luna, bassist Sérgio Roma, and drummer Rodrigo Biffi. The band blends aggressive thrash riffing with death metal brutality, and in 2025 signed with US label Brutal Records, releasing their debut full-length "Degenerate" in 2026.
Diatryma is a death and thrash metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2024. The project fuses death metal with thrash velocity.
Diavok was a death metal band from Porto Feliz, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2021. The band released a self-titled debut demo, "Demo I," in March 2021 before splitting up.
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.
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.
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