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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Duramater is a brutal death metal/goregrind band from Emden, Germany, formed in 2023. They push extreme boundaries with visceral brutality and goregrind excess.
Durandal is a thrash metal band from Paris, France, active since 2012. Named after Roland's legendary sword, they deliver cutting thrash from the French capital.
Durbatuluk is an atmospheric black metal band from Heinsberg, Germany, formed in 2019. Their Tolkien-derived name signals a black metal project steeped in dark fantasy and atmospheric depth.
Durbuk is a black metal band from Finland, formed in 2023. They deliver raw Finnish black metal.
Durge is a sludge and doom metal band from Kendal, Cumbria, formed in 2014. Their debut The First Days of Dystopia features four extended tracks of heavy, heady instrumental doom and sludge, recorded by Rob Crossland in January 2014 and mixed by Ben Booker.
Durnhul plays black metal from the remote village of Berladnici in Moldavia, active since 2019. Their extremely rural origins lend authentic isolation to black metal that channels the darkness of Romania's most sparsely populated regions.
Durothar is a pagan metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2016. They draw on Germanic pagan traditions through folk-tinged heavy metal.
Durson is a death metal band from Tornio, Finland, formed in 2024. They play death metal from the Finnish-Swedish border at the top of the Gulf of Bothnia.
Durthang Spellcaster is a black metal band from Finland, formed in 2023. Named after a Tolkien fortress, they weave dark spells through black metal.
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