Dr Doom plays death metal and grindcore from Groningen, formed in 2022 and dispensing sonic destruction with the clinical authority their title implies. Their comic-villain name lends a playful menace to otherwise punishing extreme metal.

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.

Dragnet is a death metal and grindcore band from Florence, Italy, formed in 2019. The project delivers raw grinding death metal from the Tuscan underground.

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A West Flanders extreme metal band from Kuurne and Wevelgem active from 1986 to 1993, Dreft evolved from raw grindcore in the late 1980s through death metal and eventually into doom-death, tracing a trajectory that mirrored the broader evolution of European extreme metal during that period. The band appeared on the 1990 compilation Morbid Noise – Abomination 4 and left behind rehearsal tapes from 1988 that document their earliest grindcore phase.

Dropthehammer is a death metal and grindcore band from Pula, Croatia, formed in 2017. The band deliver relentless extremity at the intersection of brutal death metal and grindcore.

Drugaddicted is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Florence, Italy, formed in 2025. The project channels savage grinding death metal extremity from the Tuscan underground.