Despot is a thrash metal and crossover band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2021. The band fuse the speed of thrash metal with the punk energy of crossover.

Despotic is a death/thrash metal band from Prenzlau, Germany, formed in 2018. They rule through tyrannical death/thrash metal with authoritative force.

Despotism is a brutal death metal band from Dnipro, Ukraine, formed in 2021. The project delivers punishing brutal death metal.

Dessacrator plays thrash/speed metal from the university city of Leiden, active since 2011 and desecrating convention through high-velocity riffing. Their misspelled-desecrator name adds a deliberately crude edge to their classic thrash attack.

Destabilizer is a thrash metal band from Horsens in east-central Jutland, active since 2021 and living up to their name with compositions designed to destabilize through relentless aggression. Their sound channels the raw, untamed energy of classic thrash through a Danish lens.

Destillat is a melodic black/death metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2018. They distill the essence of melodic extremity through black and death metal.

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 Disease is a metalcore band from Birmingham, England, emerging in 2025. They deliver diseased metalcore from the West Midlands.

A death metal band from Vienna, Austria, whose history traces back to the early 1990s despite the band's official founding in May 2008. They play straightforward death metal rooted in the Vienna underground and are documented on Bandcamp and Austrian metal compilations.