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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Dead Titan is a stoner/doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2022. They channel titanic heaviness through stoner and doom metal.
Blackened sludge/doom metal with crust influences from Dallas.
Dead Wish is a doom and gothic metal band from Ankara, Turkey, formed in 2007. The project crafts dark doom/gothic metal from the Turkish capital.
Fayetteville, Arkansas's Deadbird have been refining their harrowing blend of doom and sludge since 2006, steeped in the bleakness of the Ozark underground. Their slow-churning, feedback-drenched sound carries the weight of genuinely Southern darkness.
Deadend Men is a doom and sludge metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2023. The project delivers crushing doom and sludge from the Ukrainian capital.
Chicago's Deadimalone. have been hauling doom and sludge through the city's grey industrial sprawl since 2016, leaning into the kind of heavy that feels like weight rather than volume. The period in their name feels intentional — a full stop on all optimism.
Atlanta's Deadlink formed in 2021 threading death metal ferocity through the slow-moving wreckage of sludge and doom, creating something that crawls and bludgeons in equal measure. Their city's heavy scene backs them up.
Deadly Moussaka is a gothic/doom metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2020. They deliver slow, heavy doom with gothic atmospheres and a distinctive creative identity.
Xenia, Ohio's Deadly Sin (Sloth) embody their chosen vice completely, building doom and sludge metal that moves at its own glacial pace with zero interest in efficiency since 2016. The parenthetical is a thesis statement.
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