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Dhul Karnain is a thrash metal/crustcore band from Móstoles, Spain, active since 2008. They fuse thrash aggression with crust punk's filthy intensity from Madrid's outskirts.
Dieselpest is a sludge/crust/doom metal band from Germany, formed in 2020. They combine the filth of sludge and crust with doom's crushing slowness.
Digest! is a death metal/crust/grindcore band from the Ulm/Stuttgart area of Germany, formed in 2020. They deliver a ferocious mix of death metal, crust, and grindcore extremity.
Disembalmed is a crust punk and death metal band from Varmland and Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2024. The project merges crust aggression with death metal.
Disfear is a Swedish d-beat and crust punk band founded in 1989 in Nyköping by guitarist Björn Peterson and bassist Henke Frykman. Their core sound draws from Discharge's raw urgency, and following early albums Soul Scars (1995) and Everyday Slaughter (1997), the band recruited At the Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg, whose death metal inflection sharpened their attack on Misanthropic Generation (2003) and Live the Storm (2008), the latter recorded with Converge's Kurt Ballou and featuring Entombed's Uffe Cederlund.
Dishammer is a Madrid-based thrash metal and crustcore band active since 2009, fusing the filthy aggression of crust punk with thrash's speed and riff attack. Their raw, lo-fi approach places them in the tradition of blackened thrash and d-beat-infused extremity that thrives in Spain's underground.
Dispheris is a crust punk and death metal band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2021. The project merges crust punk's raw aggression with death metal's crushing weight.
Dispicha plays heavy metal fused with crust punk from Castelo de Paiva in northern Portugal, active since 2011. Their unusual genre combination bridges the gap between metal's power and punk's raw urgency, creating a distinctly Portuguese hybrid.
Distruster is a crust punk, death metal, and speed metal band from the Krakow area, Poland, formed in 2022. The project merges crust punk aggression with death and speed metal velocity.
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