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Darth Vader is a heavy metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2021. They play straightforward heavy metal with a sense of bombastic power.
Dartropia is a funeral doom/death metal project from the Grand Est region of eastern France, active since 2014 and crafting glacially paced compositions of immense weight and sorrow. Their sound belongs to metal's slowest subgenre, where each note hangs in the air like a requiem.
Darvulia is a power metal band from Vilagarcía de Arousa, Spain, formed in 2021. Named after the historical Hungarian figure, they play powerful metal from Galicia.
Darzamat is a symphonic gothic black metal band from Katowice, Poland, formed in 1996. One of Poland's veteran extreme metal acts, the project merges symphonic grandeur with gothic and black metal darkness.
Das Cabinet is an instrumental progressive thrash metal and djent band from Munich, Germany, founded in 2011. Their extended compositions, including the 2020 release "Dragon Tales," showcase technical virtuosity across psychedelic and progressive metal landscapes without vocals.
Das Letzte is a melodic death/gothic metal band from the Cambs/Schwerin area of Germany, formed in 2022. They fuse the melodic hooks of Gothenburg-style death metal with gothic metal's dark romanticism.
Syracuse grindcore act Dasein take their name from Heidegger's concept of human existence, then promptly obliterate any philosophical calm with blastbeat-driven bursts of noise and fury since forming in 2021.
Washington State's Dashuyn arrived in 2026 as a new entry in the Pacific Northwest's underground black metal tradition, conjuring a sound that feels shaped by rain, isolation, and an instinct for severity.
Dask is a gothic and black metal band from Patras, Greece, formed in 2017. The band merge the dark atmosphere of gothic metal with the intensity of black metal in their Hellenic underground sound.
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