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Diementia is a five-piece melodic death/thrash metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2009 and featuring members J. Hinde, R. Kerr, D. MacIvor, and R. Petch. Their releases Tears of Blood (2009) and the Forgotten Dead EP (2012) showcase a melodic yet aggressive take on the death-thrash formula.
Diemonds are a hard rock band formed in Toronto, Canada in 2006, fronted by vocalist Priya Panda. The band draws from classic '80s hard rock and heavy metal traditions, releasing their full-length debut The Bad Pack in 2012 on Underground Operations. Their second album Never Wanna Die (2015), produced by Juno Award winner Eric Ratz via eOne Music, earned a 2016 Juno Award nomination for Heavy Metal Album of the Year.
Dienasty is a progressive/thrash metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2023. They push thrash into progressive territory with ambitious compositions.
Dieresis is a brutal death metal band from Besançon, France, active since 2013. They deliver brutal death metal from the Franche-Comté region.
Dies Ater is a Berlin-based black metal act whose Latin name — meaning "black day" — frames each composition as a liturgy of darkness. Active since 1996, they are among the longest-running acts in the German capital's black metal underground, with nearly three decades of bleak, atmospheric output.
Dies Holocaustum is a death/thrash metal band from Bristol, England, founded as a solo project by Jon Alcover in 2013 and expanded to a full band in 2018 with the addition of drummer Will Pearson (ex-Body Harvest), bassist Rob Innell, and guitarist K-lum Schmit. They reached the grand final of Bristol's Metal 2 the Masses competition in 2019 and released their full-length debut in January 2020.
Dies Irae is a heavy/power metal band from Vantaa, Finland, formed in 2020. Named after the medieval hymn, they deliver powerful heavy and power metal.
Diesel King is a sludge metal band from London, active since 2010 and self-described as delivering a brutal blend of dirty sludge and down-tempo heavy metal. Their discography includes the albums Concrete Burial, The Grey Man, and The Ancient and the Nameless, each building on their ear-destroying low-end assault.
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