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DivUrge is a symphonic power metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2017. The band combine orchestral arrangements and powerful vocals with the driving force of power metal.
Dixie Heaven is a power metal band from Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, active since the mid-2010s. The band released their debut album "Riding the Thunder" in 2016, a 10-track record recorded at Kolera Studios and produced by guitarist Fran Castelo, drawing comparisons to acts such as Primal Fear, Battle Beast, and Crystal Viper. The lineup features vocalist Villu Castelo alongside a full five-piece band.
Seattle's DIYU — named for the Chinese realm of the dead — have been channeling the Pacific Northwest's damp, oppressive atmosphere into doom and stoner metal since 2019. Their sound is slow and heavy in the way Seattle seems built to produce, smoke-filled and gravitational, pulling the listener into the kind of narcotic heaviness the city's underground has specialized in for decades.
San Francisco's Dizastor have been keeping Bay Area thrash's underground fires burning since 2013, operating in the direct lineage of a city that invented the genre's most aggressive permutations. Raw, fast, and built on the backbone of classic American thrash, they carry the tradition forward without nostalgia getting in the way of genuine aggression.
Dizattack is a thrash metal band from Vilnohirsk, Ukraine, formed in 2023. The project delivers aggressive thrash metal.
Dizchu is a solo atmospheric black metal project from Tredegar, Wales, self-described as "weird bedroom black metal" with progressive and psychedelic leanings. A prolific output since 2015 includes Past Tense, To Satisfy an Artificial Urge, The Infernal Dawn, Surrender, and the 49-minute The Machine Exsanguinates Our Planet (2024).
Dizident plays progressive melodic death metal and metalcore from Ploiesti in Wallachia, active since 2007 and channeling political and social dissidence through technically accomplished compositions. Their dissident name speaks to the rebellious spirit driving nearly two decades of genre-crossing extreme metal.
Dizzillusion is a blackened speed/thrash metal band from Giessen, Germany, formed in 2016. They fuse black metal's darkness with the breakneck pace of speed and thrash.
Dizziness is a black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2014. The band channel the darkness and aggression of the Hellenic black metal scene.
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