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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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New Jersey progressive metal project Dassven channel the genre's appetite for intricacy and emotional depth, constructing layered compositions that reward close listening since their 2020 formation.
Dastard is a depressive black metal/ambient project from Aalborg, Denmark, formed in 2022. They explore despair and isolation through raw depressive black metal and ambient textures.
Chattanooga's Dastardly Heel approach melodic death metal with a pugnacious edge, pairing melodic Gothenburg-style leads with downright mean rhythmic attack in a sound that's been sharpened since 2020.
Dastri Got Dagur is a black/doom metal band from Toulon, France, emerging in 2025. They forge black and doom metal from the Mediterranean coast.
Raleigh's Datura named themselves after the toxic nightshade and deliver on the promise — a poisonous hybrid of thrash, death, and doom metal that has been mutating through North Carolina's underground since 2019.
Oklahoma City's Datura push technical death metal into stranger territory with an avant-garde streak that refuses to color inside genre lines, bringing genuine compositional weirdness to a city with a scrappy extreme metal tradition.
Chattanooga's Datura splice hardcore's blunt-force urgency into a black metal framework, creating a collision of punk hostility and atmospheric darkness that's been burning since 2019.
Austin's Datura have been cultivating a straight-ahead death metal assault since 2019, rooted in the Lone Star City's dense extreme metal underground where heaviness is treated as both tradition and obligation.
Minneapolis black metal act Datura Dread carry the bleak legacy of the Twin Cities underground into the new decade, conjuring dread-soaked atmospheres with a city-specific coldness that only the upper Midwest seems to produce.
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