David Csontos is an industrial groove metal and electronic artist from Bury St. Edmunds, England, formed in 2023. They merge industrial textures and electronic elements with groove metal.

David Hannah is a heavy/power metal artist with electronic influences from Maybole, Scotland, formed in 2016. They blend traditional heavy/power metal with electronic elements.

David Readman is a melodic heavy metal and hard rock vocalist based in Karlsruhe, Germany, known for his work with Pink Cream 69. His solo releases including "Generation Dead" showcase his powerful vocal range in a melodic rock setting.

David Stahl is a progressive metal/rock artist from Germany, active since 2021. His compositions explore the intersection of progressive metal's complexity and rock's accessibility.

Davinchi plays metalcore and deathcore from Saint Petersburg, active since 2021 and adding Renaissance-genius naming to crushing breakdowns and guttural vocals. Their deliberately misspelled tribute to da Vinci hints at ambition beyond the genre's typical boundaries.

Linköping's Dawn were among the earliest and most melodically gifted Swedish black metal acts, forming in 1990 and releasing their debut Nær Sólen Gar Niþer for Evogher in 1994 — an album of ethereal, riff-laden beauty that synthesized the aggression of death metal with the cold grandeur of black metal and pointed toward the melodic extremity that would define much of the decade's Scandinavian output. Their 1998 follow-up Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) built on that foundation with even greater compositional ambition, cementing their legacy as underappreciated architects of melodic black metal.

Dawn of a Dark Age is an atmospheric and experimental black metal project from the remote town of Agnone in the Molise region, active since 2011 and exploring the boundaries of black metal through unconventional instrumentation and song structures. Their work pushes beyond genre conventions into territory where folk elements and avant-garde experimentation meet blasting extremity.

Dawn of Anguish is a doom metal band from Mosta, Malta, formed in 2013. The project delivers crushing doom metal from the Mediterranean island nation.

Dawn of Apocalypse is a black and thrash metal band from Sala, Sweden, formed in 2016. The project fuses black metal with thrash velocity.