Dyinghost plays melodic death metal and metalcore from Saint Petersburg, active since 2015 and channeling spectral dissolution through melodic aggression. Their fading-apparition name suits music that moves between the corporeal violence of metalcore and the ethereal beauty of melodeath.

Dylath-Leen is an atmospheric death metal band from Cambrai, France, active since 2001. Named after Lovecraft's dreamland city, they have delivered atmospheric death metal for over two decades.

Dynamation is a death metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2015. They deliver explosive death metal with dynamic intensity.

Dyonide is a thrash and death metal band from Guildford, Surrey, formed in 2016. The band fuse the speed and precision of thrash metal with the heaviness of death metal in their aggressive output.

Dypherim is a blackened death metal band from Cork, Ireland, formed in 2020. The band deliver intense extreme metal at the crossroads of black and death metal.

Dysanchely is a melodic death and doom metal band from Trnava, Slovakia, formed in 2016. The project merges melodic death metal with doom metal's weight.

Dysbiosis is a death metal, grindcore, and noise band from London, formed in 2025 and describing their sound as "deathbeat noisegrind." Their debut I (2025) delivers four tracks in under seven minutes, released on a limited cassette run of twenty-five glitter-sprayed copies.

Dyscaphia is a death metal band from Manchester, formed in 2020. The band channel brutal, uncompromising death metal with an emphasis on heaviness and technical precision.

Dyscarnate is a death and groove metal band from Horsham, West Sussex, formed in 2016. The band deliver crushing death metal with groove-heavy rhythmic foundations in their powerful, aggressive output.