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Distant Sun is a power and thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2016. The project merges power metal's grandeur with thrash aggression.
Distant Thunder is a speed/thrash metal act from Gronau on the Dutch-German border, formed in 2025 and channeling the approaching-storm energy their name evokes. Their sound delivers the first rumbles of a sonic tempest built on lightning-fast riffs and pummeling rhythms.
Blistering Heavy / Thrash Metal from Houston.
Baltimore's Distend emerged in 2020 at the intersection of black metal's raw hostility and post-black metal's atmospheric expansiveness, channeling the grit and mood of a city with a serious underground pedigree. Their post-black metal lean brings texture and space to the tremolo-and-blast template, a natural fit for a scene that's never been shy about pushing at genre boundaries.
Maryland's Distention formed in 2023 trafficking in the space between death metal's crushing extremity and deathcore's breakdown-heavy structure, a synthesis that reflects the current state of the Mid-Atlantic's extreme underground. Still fresh, they're a band arriving at a moment when the line between these two subgenres has never been more productively blurred.
Disterror is a black/thrash metal and crust punk band from Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico, formed in 2010. Their debut full-length "Catharsis" appeared in 2015, and they released the EP "Revealing Darkness" in 2025. Their catalog blends black metal, thrash, and crust punk elements.
Disterror is a black/thrash metal and crust punk band from Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico, formed in 2010. Their debut full-length "Catharsis" appeared in 2015, and they released the EP "Revealing Darkness" in 2025. Their catalog blends black metal, thrash, and crust punk elements.
Distillery is a heavy metal/hard rock band from Le Havre, France, active since 2001. With over two decades of output, they distill heavy metal and hard rock from Normandy's port city.
Distinct Cult is a black/thrash metal band from Leipzig, Germany, active since 2008. They forge a distinctive blend of black and thrash metal from Saxony's underground.
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