Drill plays depressive black metal from Russia, active since 2019 and boring through emotional defenses with relentless, anguished compositions. Their mechanical-tool name captures the repetitive, piercing quality of DSBM's most hypnotic strains.

Drill Star Autopsy is a death/groove metal band from Eisleben, Germany, formed in 2018. They combine death metal's brutality with groove metal's rhythmic drive.

Driller is a heavy metal band from Edinburgh, Scotland. The band craft straightforward, riff-heavy traditional metal in their independently released material.

Drillworm started as a death/groove metal act in Kazan before shifting toward thrash metal and hardcore. Active since 2015, their parasitic name and genre evolution speak to a restless creativity that refuses to settle in one sonic body.

Drinking Skull is a thrash metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, active since 1990. With over three decades of activity, the band are one of the longest-running thrash metal acts in the Croatian metal scene.

Drioma is a stoner metal/rock band from Kumanovo in North Macedonia, channeling the genre's trademark fuzz-drenched riffs and laid-back grooves through a Balkan sensibility. Their name — derived from a Greek word related to drowsiness — captures the hypnotic, trance-inducing quality of their heavy, psychedelic sound.

Dripback is a death metal, grindcore, and hardcore band from London, active since 2011 and self-described as delivering "hardcore / death / grind fury." Their 2020 album Blessed with Less Than Nothing was produced and mastered by Russ Russell with executive production by Nicholas H. Barker, pressed on vinyl through 4Family Records in a first run of 300 copies.

Dripping Horror is a death and thrash metal band from Orebro, Sweden, formed in 2019. The project delivers aggressive death/thrash.

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.