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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Dawnguard is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Istanbul, Turkey, formed in 2017. The project blends melodic death metal with metalcore from the Bosphorus city.
San Jose's Dawning merge progressive metal's structural ambition with the bleakness of black and doom metal, resulting in music that shifts between introspection and devastation. Active since 2022, the band approaches the Bay Area's heavy scene from an angle all their own.
Dawning Decay is a thrash/death metal band from Greifswald, Germany, formed in 2024. They unleash a fresh wave of aggressive thrash and death metal from northeastern Germany.
Dawning Eclipse is an Austrian atmospheric, depressive, and post-black metal project whose track "The Last Glimmering Light" serves as the band's most-heard composition. Their music is placed by listeners alongside depressive black metal acts such as Sombres Forêts and Sui Caedere, with an approach built around desolate, drifting song structures and bleak lyrical content.
Dawnmaster is a heavy/thrash metal band from Urnieta, Basque Country, Spain, active since 2009. They deliver powerful heavy/thrash metal from the green Basque countryside.
Dawnpatrol is a blackened thrash metal band from Libourne, France, active since 2012. They deliver fierce blackened thrash from the Bordeaux region.
Dawnraiser is a thrash metal band from Bradford, England, formed in 2020. They raise the dawn through aggressive thrash from West Yorkshire.
DawnRazor is a thrash/death metal band from Ipswich, England, active since 2013. They deliver razor-sharp thrash/death from East Anglia.
Dawns Revival is a Swiss melodic black-death metal project inspired by the cold, atmospheric spirit of 1990s Scandinavian extremity. Starting as a one-man effort by S.B. in 2017 and now featuring vocalist P.L., the duo has released four albums including the 2025 full-length 'Luminous Skies.'
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