Dr. Faust started as a speed/thrash metal act in the Black Sea resort of Sochi before evolving into death metal and grindcore. Active since 2016, their Faustian name — evoking the deal-with-the-devil legend — frames their genre transformation as a kind of bargain with extremity.

Dr. Gore is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2008. The project channels savage grinding death metal with horror-themed brutality from the Italian capital.

Dr. Incinerator is a death metal/grindcore band from Lyon, France, formed in 2020. They deliver incinerating extremity from southeastern France.

Dr. Terror is a thrash/death metal band from Ripoll, Spain, formed in 2016. They prescribe a lethal dose of thrash and death metal from the Catalan Pyrenees.

Dracarys is a melodic death metal band from Trondelag, Norway, formed in 2015. The project channels Scandinavian melodic death metal from the central Norwegian region.

Draconia is a melodic death metal band from Turku, Finland, active since 2013. They play powerful melodic death metal from Finland's medieval capital.

Draconian Reign is a symphonic deathcore band from Nottingham, self-described as hailing from "the cold heart of the United Kingdom." Their releases It Came from Hell (2022), Necromantic (2022), and Tragedy Eternal (2023) fuse symphonic grandeur with deathcore brutality.

Draegloth is a death metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne, formed in 2017. Their debut EP The Beginning of the End... delivers four tracks of melodic death metal across nearly eighteen minutes, including the ominous Reactor No.4.

Drag the Lake is a death/thrash metal band from Nottingham, England, formed in 2012. The band combine the bludgeoning heaviness of death metal with thrash metal's velocity in their independently released output.