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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Dyrathor is a folk/melodic black metal band from Hattingen, Germany, formed in 2015. They weave folk elements through melodic black metal with a rustic, atmospheric approach.
Dyrmoon is an atmospheric black metal project from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 2019. Their releases Umbra Perpetua and Providence explore atmospheric black metal landscapes rooted in the Northern Irish underground.
Dyrnwyn is a Roman folk metal band named after the legendary Welsh sword of fire, channeling Celtic and medieval mythology into heavy, folk-inflected compositions. Active since 2013, they draw from the deep well of European folklore that has long inspired the folk metal tradition.
Dyrokol plays thrash/heavy metal from Saint Petersburg, active since 2016 and whose Russian name — meaning "hole punch" — promises to perforate with maximum efficiency. Their industrial-tool name matches a direct, no-frills approach to aggressive metal.
Dyryth is a power metal band from the Raahe/Oulu area of Finland, formed in 2024. They deliver northern Finnish power metal.
Dysanchely is a melodic death and doom metal band from Trnava, Slovakia, formed in 2016. The project merges melodic death metal with doom metal's weight.
Dysangelic is a heavy metal band from Marsta, Sweden, formed in 2014. The project delivers classic heavy metal from the Stockholm area.
Dysbiosis is a death metal, grindcore, and noise band from London, formed in 2025 and describing their sound as "deathbeat noisegrind." Their debut I (2025) delivers four tracks in under seven minutes, released on a limited cassette run of twenty-five glitter-sprayed copies.
Dyscaphia is a death metal band from Manchester, formed in 2020. The band channel brutal, uncompromising death metal with an emphasis on heaviness and technical precision.
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