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Infinite Terror (2024)
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With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Desolation Catalyst is a melodic death metal band from Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany, active since 2011. They deliver powerful melodic death metal with emotional intensity.
Despectus is a symphonic melodic death metal band from Kharkiv, Ukraine, formed in 2011. The project layers symphonic elements over melodic death metal from eastern Ukraine.
Destination Dawn is a melodic death/power metal band from Nordhausen, Germany, active since 2009. They merge melodic death metal's intensity with power metal's soaring energy.
Destination:Unity is a melodic death metal band from Wiesbaden, Germany, formed in 2017. They deliver melody-driven death metal with a unifying vision.
Destince is a progressive/melodic death metal band from Marburg, Germany, formed in 2019. They push melodic death metal into progressive territory with ambitious songwriting.
Dethrone the Corrupted is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Slovenska Bistrica, Slovenia, formed in 2014. The project blends melodic death metal with metalcore.
Detrimentum is a melodic death metal band from Minsk, Belarus, active since 2002 and one of the country's longest-running extreme metal acts. Their catalog includes 'A Monument to the Suffering' and 'Embracing This Deformity,' exploring themes of existential despair through brutal yet technically proficient death metal.
Deuel is a progressive and melodic death metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 2012. The band merge the technical intricacy of progressive metal with the heaviness of melodic death metal.
Devation is a melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2015. The project channels the legendary Gothenburg melodic death metal sound.
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