• Djunah performs at Caterwaul 2024 with singer Donna Diane playing guitar and screaming

    Djunah at Caterwaul 2024: Full schedule released!

    Singer-guitarist Donna Diane is set to return to this year’s Caterwaul, May 24-27, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This year’s set features a solo performance by Diane, 7:30 pm on Monday, May...

    Djunah at Caterwaul 2024: Full schedule released!

    Singer-guitarist Donna Diane is set to return to this year’s Caterwaul, May 24-27, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This year’s set features a solo performance by Diane, 7:30 pm on Monday, May...

  • Djunah singer Donna Diane from the artwork for Femina Furens

    "Femina Furens" makes Bandcamp year-end list

    Bandcamp has named "Femina Furens" one of the best metal albums of the year. The band's inclusion on the list highlights the critical acclaim the album has received, signifying singer-guitarist Donna...

    "Femina Furens" makes Bandcamp year-end list

    Bandcamp has named "Femina Furens" one of the best metal albums of the year. The band's inclusion on the list highlights the critical acclaim the album has received, signifying singer-guitarist Donna...

  • Djunah singer guitarist Donna Diane of Chicago band Djuna

    Djunah announces fall 2023 tour dates

    A full list of fall 2023 tour dates have been announced in support of the release of "Femina Furens." Cincinnati duo Lung will join up at the tour kickoff in Savannah, Georgia, at...

    Djunah announces fall 2023 tour dates

    A full list of fall 2023 tour dates have been announced in support of the release of "Femina Furens." Cincinnati duo Lung will join up at the tour kickoff in Savannah, Georgia, at...

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Djunah portrait press photo of singer guitarist Donna Diane 2024

Finding beauty in rage

Djunah is the Chicago-based noise-rock project of guitarist, bassist, and singer Donna Diane. She pulls triple duty, simultaneously playing guitar, singing, and pulverizing a Moog bass organ with her foot — a feat some have described as "mind-blowing."

Known for a massive, intense live sound, the passion project is fueled as much by big emotions as it is by love of gear. Diane, who has been featured on Premiere Guitar's Rig Rundown, is a self-described gearhead who learned to build footswitches to make simultaneously playing both instruments possible.

"Femina Furens," Djunah's second album, was named one of the best metal records of 2023 by Bandcamp Daily. The record fuses influences from formal poetry and heavy music to tell the story of diagnosis and continuing recovery from complex post-traumatic stress disorder, or C-PTSD. 

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Djunah band singer guitarist Donna Diane playing guitar at a live show for Djuna

What people are saying

"Femina Furens shakes you by the shoulders with every note. — Bandcamp Daily

“Seismic guitar ... 100% emotion ... You've got to see it to believe it.” — Everything Is Noise

“An instant classic, like we’ve got a new Melvins on our hands.” — New Noise

“An angular Noise Rock escalator run on power and beauty … Ex Voto is a record that should be heard by all music lovers, no matter what scene you are a part of.” – CVLT Nation

"A full-force barrage of emotional expressions of deep pain, intense sexuality, and personal and political power.​" —Big Takeover Magazine

"Diane’s hypnotic vocals hover over a swelling tapestry of simmering guitar riffage and pulsating percussion." — Impose Magazine

"A deeply expressive and sentimental work, and one of the year's finest debuts." — Destroy/Exist

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