A Nashville, Tennessee black metal project formed in 2024, Dweller of Graves works within the genre's most austere traditions, conjuring a sound built around cold riffs, harsh vocals, and an unflinching commitment to darkness.

Taking their name from Jewish folklore's restless spirit, Boulder, Colorado's Dybbuk have woven together Viking, folk, and black metal since 2012, creating a distinctly atmospheric brand of pagan metal grounded in mythological imagery and sweeping melodic sensibility.

Based out of Chinle, Arizona — a town deep within the Navajo Nation — Dyfrost has been developing their brand of melodic death metal since 2015, bringing a perspective to the genre that is both geographically and culturally distinctive.

Formed in 2019 in Apple Valley, California, Dygra delivers death metal in the classic mold — heavy riffing, aggressive vocals, and a straightforward approach that favors crushing impact over genre experimentation.

A progressive metal project from Wilmington, Massachusetts active since 2015, Dyhanna explores the genre's melodic and technical dimensions with a compositionally ambitious approach that draws on the full dynamic range between delicacy and full-throated heaviness.

A Collegeville, Pennsylvania death metal act formed in 2024, Dying Angel channels the old-school brutality of the genre's foundational era, favoring raw aggression and direct songwriting over modern technical showmanship.

San Francisco's Dying Breath launched in 2025 fusing the Bay Area's storied thrash tradition with groove metal's mid-paced, rhythmically locked riffing, occupying familiar but proven territory for the city's metal scene.

Dying Fetus have been one of death metal's most brutally efficient machines since forming in Upper Marlboro, Maryland in 1991. Their signature blend of technical death metal, grindcore, and slam delivers crushing breakdowns that practically invented the modern death metal mosh part. Albums like 'Destroy the Opposition' and 'Reign Supreme' are study guides in precision brutality, and their influence on subsequent generations of extreme metal bands is immeasurable.

A New Jersey heavy metal band active since 2005, Dying Light draws from both hard rock's melodic accessibility and traditional metal's heavier structural sensibility, occupying the well-worn but enduring territory where the two genres have always overlapped.