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Formed in Morris Plains, New Jersey, in 1997, The Dillinger Escape Plan are widely credited with defining mathcore as a genre, their 1999 debut Calculating Infinity establishing a template of ferocious rhythmic complexity, dissonance, odd time signatures, and barely controlled live violence that influenced an entire generation of extreme music. Across six studio albums — including Ire Works (2007) and One of Us Is the Butcher (2016) — the band progressively incorporated melody, electronics, and jazz-influenced experimentation without surrendering the underlying aggression. They disbanded in December 2017 after a farewell run of shows, leaving behind one of the most uncompromising and influential catalogs in 21st-century heavy music.
Houston's The Dirty Seeds have been cultivating their strain of stoner metal since 2014, bringing the swampy, tar-slow riffage of the genre to bear with the intensity you'd expect from Texas's most relentlessly hot city. Their sound favors massive, fuzz-drenched guitar tones and a loose, live-sounding energy that makes their records feel like sitting next to the stage amp. In a city that breeds outsized personalities and outsized sounds, The Dirty Seeds are one of Houston's most enduring underground acts.
Los Angeles's The Dolemite Project have been colliding grindcore velocity with crossover thrash's d-beat swagger and classic thrash riffing since 2016, producing short, punishing songs designed to leave listeners winded. Named with an eye toward exploitation cinema, they bring the same irreverent aggression to their music — fast, noisy, and absolutely ferocious. In LA's vast and competitive underground, they've carved out a distinctive niche at the chaos end of the thrash spectrum.
Out of Clay City, Illinois, The Dr. Orphyus Project is one of heavy metal's genuinely unusual propositions — death metal filtered through experimental and jazz sensibilities, built on complex structures and timbres that most death metal acts would never dare touch. Active since 2015, they bring an almost academic adventurousness to extreme music, the kind only possible in isolation from major-scene pressure. The result is death metal that sounds like it was assembled in a laboratory where genre rules are treated as starting points, not limits.
Chicago's The Draconian Crusade have been driving the city's thrash underground since 2013, delivering the kind of tight, aggressive, riff-forward metal that Chicago's industrial backbone seems to inspire. Their name signals a sound built on aggression and rigidity — thrash that hits with mechanical force and doesn't deviate from the attack. In a city with a long history of heavy music, The Draconian Crusade are one of its most committed thrash torchbearers.
The Drake Equation from Angers craft funeral doom metal named after the probabilistic formula for estimating extraterrestrial civilizations since 2013. Over a decade of cosmically-paced doom from the Maine-et-Loire capital, they have explored the universe's vast emptiness at a glacial tempo.
A quintet from Richland, Washington, The Drip formed in 2007 and built a following in the underground grindcore and crust punk community with a merciless sound fusing d-beat, powerviolence, and grind in the tradition of Napalm Death and Brutal Truth. Signed to Relapse Records, the band released the EP A Presentation of Gruesome Poetics (2014) and their debut full-length The Haunting Fear of Inevitability (2017), the latter produced by Joel Grind of Toxic Holocaust and mastered by Brad Boatright. Thirteen tracks of blastbeat-driven crust riffage with no concessions to accessibility defined their recorded output.
The Drowned is a death metal band from Lahti, Finland, formed in 2017. They deliver submerged, crushing death metal.
The Drowning from Toulouse have been crafting doom metal since 2005, submerging listeners in crushing, suffocating compositions for two decades from the Pink City. Their aquatic-death name captures the slow, inescapable heaviness of their sound.
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