Hermetic black metal project featuring drummer Antinom, who went on to form Vasaeleth. Active 2003-2009 before disbanding.

Virginia's Dahmed tears through brutal death metal, deathcore, and hardcore without stopping to consider where one ends and the other begins — the result is chaotic, punishing, and deliberately overwhelming. Since 2017, they've built a reputation in the underground for unrelenting intensity.

Saint Paul's Daigoro tear through the intersection of death metal brutality and grindcore velocity with thrash-sharpened riffs that refuse to let up. Formed in 2017, they bring a frantic, no-frills aggression to the Twin Cities underground.

Named after the mythic Norse sword that cannot be sheathed without drawing blood, Boston's Dainsleif fuse melodic death metal's sweeping intensity with folk metal's ancient melodic sensibility. One of the newer acts to emerge from the New England scene, formed in 2025.

Grand Rapids' Dakhma blend post-black metal's atmospheric sprawl with the raw abrasion of crust punk, creating music that's as bleak as the Michigan winters it grew out of. Formed in 2014, they push atmospheric black metal toward something distinctly confrontational and earthbound.

Buffalo's Damages have been crafting melodic death metal with a pronounced sense of craft and songwriting depth since 2009. They channel the Scandinavian melodeath template through an American lens, adding their own blue-collar edge to the genre's soaring sensibility.

Los Angeles' Damascus grind out death/thrash metal with a West Coast ferocity that draws on both technical death metal precision and thrash's instinctive directness. Formed in 2011, they represent the harder-edged side of the LA underground.

Rochester's Damn Chili serve up goregrind and brutal death metal with the kind of absurdist irreverence the subgenre demands, fusing surgical heaviness with gleeful grotesquery since 2008. They lean fully into the nastier end of the underground, with no apologies.

Damn Human emerged in 2021 as a melodic death metal project defined by fluid riffcraft and a sense of melodic purpose that elevates the material above genre workmanship. Their approach takes the emotional core of melodeath seriously without sacrificing edge.

Salem, Oregon's Damnatio Memoriae take their name from the Roman practice of erasing condemned figures from history, and they pursue black metal and ambient textures with a similarly uncompromising finality. Formed in 2015, their work balances cold atmospheric passages against raw black metal hostility.

New Jersey's Damnation Lust conjure black/death metal in the tradition of bestial war metal, combining the nihilistic fury of both genres into something vicious and unrelenting since their 2022 formation. A project born fully formed in extremity.

Formed in Delaware in 2020, Damnations Domain weaponizes the abrasive collision of death metal and grindcore, packaging maximum brutality into short, punishing blasts. No atmosphere, no mercy — just feral sonic destruction.

One of New Jersey's longest-standing melodic death metal acts, Garfield's Damnatory have been honing their craft since 1991, weaving hook-laden guitar work through a foundation of old-school death metal ferocity. Decades of persistence show in the maturity and grit of their approach.

Out of North Lewisburg, Ohio, Damnbuilding merges the chug-heavy punishment of deathcore with old-school death metal's murk, building a sound that is as claustrophobic as it is crushing. Since 2014, the band has been leveling expectations with brute-force heaviness.

Kansas City's Damned by the Pope deliver straightforward, riff-driven death metal with a sardonic edge baked right into the name. Active since 2015, the band keeps its focus squarely on groove, grime, and the kind of blasphemous intensity the genre demands.