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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Dimman is a melodic death metal band from Teuva/Seinäjoki, Finland, formed in 2015. They deliver emotive melodic death metal from the Ostrobothnian flatlands.
Diogenes BCE plays melodic death/sludge metal from Holmestrand, formed in 2022 and named after the ancient Greek cynic philosopher. Their philosophical namesake's rejection of material comfort translates into music that refuses easy pleasures, merging melodic death metal's hooks with sludge's abrasive weight.
Dionysius is a melodic death and doom metal band from Dublin, Ireland, formed in 2011. The band merge the melodic aggression of death metal with the crushing weight of doom.
Dire Insanity is a metalcore and melodic death metal band from Kingston upon Thames, formed in 2013 and built around producer Kiran Weerasekera's compositions with vocalist Ben Davie and a multi-guitar lineup. The six-piece earned support slots with acts like Breed 77 and drew comparisons to In Flames and Dream Theater for their intricate, melodic approach.
Disagio is a melodic death metal band from Palazzolo sull'Oglio, in the Brescia province of Lombardy, Italy, formed in 2004. The project has delivered over two decades of melodic death metal from the Lombardy underground.
Disarmonia Mundi is a melodic death metal band from Avigliana, near Turin, Italy, formed in 2001. After nearly a decade away, the band returned with 'The Dormant Stranger' in 2025, continuing their signature melodic death metal marked by beautiful choruses and heavy riffing.
Disborn is a melodic death metal and thrash metal band from Vaxjo, Sweden, formed in 2018. The project channels aggressive melodeath and thrash from Smaland.
Discord is a melodic death metal band from Limerick, Ireland, formed in 2018. The band channel Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from the west of Ireland.
Disease Illusion is a melodic death metal band from Bologna, Italy, formed in 2011, featuring members from Italy, Denmark, and the UK. Inspired by the Gothenburg scene, the band blends heavy riffs with intense melodies and atmospheric elements across three albums including 'Plastic Ocean.'
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