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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Dogma Inc. is a grindcore and thrash metal band from Sala, Slovakia, formed in 2017. The project merges grinding extremity with thrash velocity.
Dolkhemmet is a death metal and grindcore band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1994. One of the veteran grinding death metal acts from the west coast.
Doprdele plays brutal death metal and grindcore from Taganrog on the Sea of Azov, active since 2021. Their deliberately crude Russian name drives music that matches its vulgarity with extreme sonic violence.
Downfall Corporation is a grindcore/death metal band from Kaiserslautern, Germany, formed in 2017. They deliver frenzied blasts of grindcore fused with death metal's heaviness.
Downtrodden is a grindcore band from Kragujevac, Serbia, formed in 2017. The project delivers short, violent bursts of grinding extremity.
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.
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