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DRUX is a black metal band from Vastra Gotaland, Sweden, formed in 2025. The project channels dark black metal.
Druzgotor is a death metal band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2003. One of the veteran death metal acts from the Polish capital, the project has delivered over two decades of aggression.
Druídas is a power metal band from Soutomaior, Spain, active since 2000. With a quarter century of history, they are veteran power metal practitioners from Galicia.
Drvzka plays gothic metal from Sao Miguel in the Azores, active since 2021 and crafting darkly romantic compositions from the volcanic mid-Atlantic. Their Slavic-styled name adds an Eastern European mystique to music rooted in one of Europe's most remote islands.
Dry and Shattered is a death metal band from Lausanne, Switzerland, formed in 2023 with a four-piece lineup featuring vocalist Yann Christinat and guitarist Leo Zrehen. Their debut material 'Systemic Turpitudes' channels aggressive, modern death metal through tight, focused compositions.
Dry Bones Army is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Heredia, Costa Rica, active since 2010. The band blends melodic death metal structures with metalcore dynamics, drawing on social issues for lyrical content. Their 2015 EP Archetypes and the 2017 full-length Restructure showcase their dual-guitar driven sound across six tightly arranged tracks.
Dry Food for Dogs is a death metal and grindcore band from Turin, Italy, formed in 2014. The project delivers raw and visceral grinding death metal from the Piedmontese underground.
Dry Heave is a black/death metal and grindcore band from England, formed in 2014. The band merge the ferocity of black and death metal with grindcore's relentless blast-beat intensity.
Dry Kill Logic are a Westchester County, New York metal band whose sound sits at the more aggressive end of the late-1990s and early-2000s nu-metal wave. Formed in the mid-1990s under the name Hinge before adopting Dry Kill Logic, the band developed a style built on downtuned groove, shouted vocals, breakdown pressure, and a hardcore-informed sense of impact. The Darker Side of Nonsense introduced them to a wider audience with songs that felt heavier and more confrontational than many radio-oriented peers, while The Dead and Dreaming and Of Vengeance and Violence pushed further into metalcore and groove metal territory. Dry Kill Logic fit metal scope through riff weight, harsh vocals, pit-centered rhythms, and a catalog tied to nu metal's heavier flank. Their music works best when it is blunt and physical, using repetition and syncopation to create pressure rather than atmosphere. The band never became a mainstream household name, but for listeners drawn to the bridge between nu metal, hardcore, and early metalcore, Dry Kill Logic remain a durable example of turn-of-the-century American heaviness.
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