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Diagnosis: Human is a progressive death/thrash metal band from Bern, active since 2013 and treating the human condition as a pathology to be dissected through complex, technically demanding compositions. Their clinical name frames their music as an examination of humanity's flaws through the scalpel of extreme metal.
Dianthus is a death and thrash metal band from Myslowice, Poland, formed in 1996. One of the veteran extreme metal acts in the Upper Silesian scene, the project has delivered decades of death/thrash.
A groove and thrash metal band from Antwerp, Diapolis released their New Millennium Crusade EP in September 2022 and have been recognized within the local scene as sharp purveyors of driving, riff-forward thrash. Unsigned and independent, they carry on the tradition of Antwerp's underground heavy music community.
Diatryma is a death and thrash metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2024. The project fuses death metal with thrash velocity.
Diavolos is a death/black/thrash metal band from Greece, featuring Tas Danazoglou (Satan's Wrath, ex-Electric Wizard) and Taneli Jarva (ex-Sentenced, ex-Impaled Nazarene). Their 2015 album You Lived Now Die, released through Hells Headbangers, delivers ten tracks of filthy 1980s-inspired extreme metal drawing from Bathory, early Onslaught, and Possessed.
Dicktator is a death/thrash metal band from Vaala, Finland, formed in 2015. They deliver authoritarian death/thrash from the Finnish interior.
Die Hard is a death and thrash metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2023. The project channels aggressive death/thrash metal.
Die Laughing is a death/thrash metal band from Plymouth, England, formed in 2025. The band deliver aggressive riffing rooted in the crossover of death metal ferocity and thrash metal velocity.
Die No More is a thrash and heavy metal band from Carlisle, England, active since 2006 with a catalog spanning three releases including Fragmetal (2006), Black Cash (2009), and their self-titled album (2017). Their independent output channels classic thrash energy across a decade of self-released material on Bandcamp.
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