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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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Dead on Mars is a progressive/symphonic death metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2018. They combine the technical ambition of progressive metal with symphonic grandeur and death metal's ferocity.
Dead Poets Society is a power and progressive metal band from Bratislava, Slovakia, formed in 2011. The project delivers ambitious metal from the Slovak capital.
Deadalus is a progressive death metal act from Liege, formed in 2024 and navigating the labyrinthine structures that the genre demands. Their name's mythological reference to the architect of the Minotaur's maze suits music that values complexity and disorientation.
Deadly Circus Fire is a progressive metal/rock band from London, England, active since 2010. They perform daring progressive metal acrobatics from the British capital.
Deadly Magic is a progressive heavy/power metal band from Remscheid, Germany, formed in 2024. They weave progressive complexity through powerful heavy and power metal foundations.
Deadly Trap is a death, progressive, and thrash metal band from the Collegno, Grugliasco, and Turin area of Italy, formed in 2018. The project blends technical death metal with progressive structures and thrash metal velocity.
Deadnate is a progressive groove metal band from Fredericia, Denmark, formed in 2018. They push groove metal into progressive territory with ambitious songwriting.
DeadOpera is a progressive and symphonic metal band from Messina, Sicily, formed in 2022. The project merges theatrical symphonic arrangements with progressive metal complexity in an ambitious Sicilian metal vision.
DeadWaterCreek plays progressive sludge metal from Moscow, active since 2017 and navigating the murky intersection of progressive complexity and sludge metal's crushing weight. Their stagnant-water name evokes the toxic, slow-moving heaviness that defines their sound.
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