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Dripping Sin is a thrash metal band from Soverato, in the Catanzaro province of Calabria, Italy, formed in 2014. The project delivers aggressive thrash metal from the deep south of Italy.
Drittmaskin is a black, speed, and thrash metal band from Breim, Norway, formed in 2018. The project fuses black metal's rawness with speed and thrash metal's relentless velocity.
Driven Under is a heavy metal and thrash metal band from Winterthur, Switzerland, active since 2014 and delivering hard-hitting compositions rooted in the classic traditions of heavy and thrash metal. Their sound emphasizes powerful riffs and driving rhythmic intensity.
Dropfist is a thrash metal band from Kharkiv, Ukraine, formed in 2019. The project delivers aggressive thrash metal from eastern Ukraine.
Drowned by Darkness plays a multi-genre blend of melodic power, death, and thrash metal from Schwabisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg, active since 2013. This ambitious cocktail of genres creates compositions that shift between the soaring melodies of power metal and the crushing intensity of death and thrash.
Drowned in Eclipse is a groove/thrash metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 2025. The band fuse the rhythmic punch of groove metal with thrash metal velocity.
Dru is a thrash metal band from Bernburg (Saale), Germany, formed in 2019. They play straightforward, riff-heavy thrash from Saxony-Anhalt.
Drujba plays thrash metal from the Bucharest/Calarasi area, formed in 2020 and whose Romanian name — meaning "chainsaw" — signals the buzzing, cutting aggression of their thrash attack. Their industrial-tool name matches a sound built for maximum destruction.
An Antwerp crossover thrash band active from 2007 to 2013, Drunk played humor-infused, beer-soaked thrash with lyrical themes squarely anchored in drinking and thrashing. Their 2010 EP Antwerp City Thrashers... encapsulates the band's chaotic live energy and their tongue-in-cheek take on the crossover tradition.
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