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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Nihility (2002)
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Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Djur plays pagan black metal from Moscow, active since 1993 and among Russia's oldest pagan metal acts. Over three decades they've channeled Slavic folk traditions through black metal's aggressive framework, pioneering a distinctly Russian vision of pagan extremity.
Djævles Skrig is a black/death metal band from Svendborg, Denmark, formed in 2015. Their name meaning 'the devil's scream,' they channel infernal fury through extreme metal.
Djëvel is a black/gothic metal band from Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, active since 2011. They blend black metal's darkness with gothic atmospheres from the sherry capital of Andalusia.
Dmitriy Chebotarev plays symphonic power metal from Petrozavodsk, the capital of Russian Karelia near the Finnish border, active since 2016. His solo project brings orchestral grandeur and soaring melodies from a region steeped in Karelian-Finnish musical heritage.
DMRBR is an atmospheric black metal project from Paris, France, formed in 2019. They create immersive, vowel-free atmospheric black metal.
DNA is a heavy metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2019. They deliver straightforward heavy metal with powerful riffs and commanding vocals.
Docile plays progressive death metal from Zwolle, formed in 2024 and whose deliberately tame name stands in ironic contrast to the complexity and intensity of their music. Their compositions prove that docility is the last thing their progressive death metal offers.
Docteur Z is a heavy metal band from Yutz, France, formed in 2020. They deliver heavy metal from the Lorraine border region.
Doctor Cyclops is a doom metal band from Voghera, in the Pavia province of Lombardy, Italy, formed in 2012. The project channels classic doom metal weight and vintage heaviness.
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