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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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DreamReaver is a progressive power metal band from Frankfurt, Germany, active since 2010. They weave intricate progressive compositions through the energetic framework of power metal.
Dreams Aeterna is a groove/progressive metal band from Bourg-en-Bresse, France, formed in 2020. They pursue eternal dreams through groove and progressive metal.
Dreams After Death is a one-man atmospheric and funeral doom metal project from Budapest, created by Andras Illes in 2011, who performs all instruments solo. The 2012 album Fading Chains features six tracks spanning over an hour, each named after emotional states from Anger through Sadness, Peace, and Love to the thirteen-minute closer Nothingness.
Dreams Dealer plays thrash metal from Valladolid in Castile and Leon, active since 2013 and trading in the aggressive currency of riff-heavy, high-velocity thrash. Their name's implication of selling fantasies contrasts with the grounded, confrontational reality of their sound.
Dreams of Agony is a symphonic metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2015. They craft grand symphonic metal from the Catalan capital.
Richmond, Virginia's Dreams of Atrocity launched in 2022, blending melodic death metal's harmonic ferocity with the structural aggression of metalcore into something that hits on multiple registers at once. The band occupies a productive middle ground where Gothenburg-influenced melody meets breakdown-ready heaviness, giving their music both emotional reach and physical impact. Coming out of a city with an increasingly visible extreme metal presence, they're part of a new Richmond generation making itself known.
Dreams of December is a post-black metal project from Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2021. The band released their debut album "Ashes of a Decadent Life" that same year, a seven-track record in the blackgaze and post-black metal tradition, with tracks drawing on philosophical and literary themes including the poetry of William Blake.
Dreams of Doom plays doom/death metal from Porto, formed in 2024 and channeling nightmarish visions through the genre's slowest, heaviest frameworks. Their oneiric name adds a surreal dimension to compositions that crush with the inevitability of a bad dream.
Dreams of the Drowned is an avant-garde/black metal band from Évreux, France, active since 2008. They push black metal into avant-garde territory with nearly two decades of experimentation.
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