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Dry My Tears is a deathcore band from Rouen, France, formed in 2019. They deliver emotional deathcore from the Norman capital.
Nevada City, California's Dry Rot has been playing death metal since 2016, drawing from the style's most direct and unadorned traditions — riff-forward, brutal, and unconcerned with modernization. Operating out of a small Northern California mountain town gives them a certain outsider quality, removed from the scene politics and trends of larger urban metal centers.
Dryaad is a black metal act from Delft, active since 2000 and named after the tree nymphs of Greek mythology. Over two decades their nature-spirit namesake has informed atmospheric black metal that draws on the natural world for inspiration and imagery.
Dryados plays symphonic black metal from Barnaul in the Altai region, active since 2017 and named after the wood nymphs of Greek mythology. Their nature-spirit name channels forest mysticism through orchestral grandeur laid over tremolo-driven black metal.
Dryas plays black metal from Portugal, active since 2020 and named after the genus of mountain plants and the cold climate period that followed the last ice age. Their botanical/geological reference points to a nature-oriented vision of black metal steeped in the earth's deep history.
Drybone Valley is a southern/groove metal band from Lippstadt, Germany, formed in 2021. They channel southern metal's bluesy swagger through heavy groove riffs.
Dryed is a groove metal and hard rock band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2022. The band blend heavy groove riffing with hard rock accessibility in their modern metal approach.
Dryrot is a band from Erlangen, Germany, with roots stretching back to 1989, whose sound evolved from thrash metal into groove/nu-metal/metalcore territory. As one of the oldest bands in this dataset, they have adapted through over three decades of stylistic evolution.
Drystone is a melodic death and progressive metal band from Huddersfield, formed in 2016 by vocalist Eddy Dixon and guitarist-producer Sam Prowse, with guitarist Will Carder, bassist Matt McKay, and drummer Bob Pears. Their 2024 second EP Giants delivers five tracks of hard-hitting metalcore and melodic death metal mixed and mastered by Greg Davis.
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