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Featured Album
"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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Dusk Within is a melodic death metal band from Bratislava, Slovakia, formed in 2022. The project channels emotionally charged melodic death metal from the Slovak capital.
Duskburn is a metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, that evolved from death metal beginnings into sludge and doom metal territory. The band's stylistic shift reflects a deepening exploration of heavy, slow-burning extremity.
Duskmachine is a speed/thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2019. They deliver blistering speed and thrash metal from the German capital.
DuskSlaughter is a melodic black metal band from Manchester, England, formed in 2025. The band blend the atmospheric melodies of melodic black metal with raw, aggressive intensity.
Duskwalker are a death/thrash metal band from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, formed in 2015 under the name The Offering before rebranding in 2018. The band blends traditional heavy metal with death metal, atmospheric passages, and face-melting guitar work, earning Canadian Niagara Music Awards for Best Metal Group in both 2019 and 2020. Their 2024 album Underground Forever, released on Black Lion Records, represents the fullest expression of their thrash and death metal synthesis.
Duskwood is a four-piece desert and stoner rock band from Yeovil, Somerset, signed to Ripple Music. Their conceptual "Nomad Saga" trilogy comprises The Long Dark, The Lost Tales, and The Last Voyage (2023), the latter recorded at Ranch Production House and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Dussias is a Madrid-based project that has evolved from various stylistic experiments into experimental doom/death metal, embracing the freedom to mutate and transform. Their willingness to reshape their sonic identity speaks to a creative restlessness that sets them apart from more genre-bound acts.
Dust Bolt is a thrash metal band from Landsberg am Lech, Germany, active since 2012. They are one of the leading acts in Germany's modern thrash revival, delivering high-energy, riff-heavy thrash.
Dust Devil is a heavy metal band from Florence, Italy, formed in 2023. The project delivers gritty and energetic heavy metal from the Tuscan capital.
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