Hailing from Norfolk, Virginia, DungeonKeep has been forging traditional heavy metal since 2018, channeling the dual-guitar crunch and melodic sensibility of the genre's golden era into material that wears its influences with both pride and conviction.

A Berkeley, California project active since 2013, Dunnock operates in the harshest margins of raw black metal and noise, crafting lo-fi, abrasive recordings that prioritize atmosphere and primitive menace over production polish.

Named after Lovecraft's cursed New England village, St. Louis's Dunwich has been combining thrash metal's mechanized aggression with the blunt force of hardcore punk since 2018, making them one of the more confrontational acts in the Missouri metal underground.

Founded in Santa Cruz, California in 2014, Dusk Meridian blends orchestral grandeur with heavy metal's structural muscle, crafting the kind of sweeping, cinematic symphonic metal that bridges the gap between classical composition and guitar-driven heaviness.

Dusted Angel formed in Santa Cruz in 2008, though several of its members had musical roots together that stretched further back into the local heavy and punk scenes. The band brought together Clifford Dinsmore on vocals, Eric Fieber and Scott Stevens on guitars, Elliot Young on bass, and later Steve Ilse on drums, creating a sound that moved away from speed and into thick, riff-centered weight. Their music draws from doom, stoner metal, and heavy rock, with long grooves, Sabbathian pacing, and a rhythmic patience that gives the riffs room to breathe. Earth Sick Mind introduced the group's low-slung attack, combining gravelly vocals, heavy blues movement, and a sense of Californian underground rock grit. The later Side of the Dirt continued that direction with a seasoned feel, emphasizing chemistry over flash. Dusted Angel's music works because it sounds like players making the kind of heavy rock they would want to hear themselves: loud, warm, unpretentious, and rooted in the slow physical pleasure of a massive riff.

A solo technical and progressive death metal project based in Portland, Oregon, Dustin Behm has been releasing intricate, guitar-forward material since 2017, pushing the genre's compositional boundaries with dense arrangements and demanding musicianship.

Santa Cruz, California's Dvvell emerged in 2022 with a sound rooted in the heaviest end of sludge and doom — plodding tempos, down-tuned guitar tone, and a suffocating atmosphere that rewards patience from the listener.

A recently formed Oakland, California band, Dwel draws equally from sludge, doom, and post-metal's expansive sonic vocabulary, building dense, slow-burning compositions that owe as much to atmosphere as they do to raw heaviness.

Frederick, Maryland's Dweller in the Valley has navigated the crossroads of black, death, and doom metal since 2013, weaving together extremity and desolation into a sound that is as bleak as the genre tags suggest.