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Depressive Mode is a funeral doom metal band from Istanbul, Turkey, formed in 2010. The project crafts glacially slow and emotionally devastating doom.
Deprive is a death/doom metal band from Santander, Spain, formed in 2021. They deliver oppressive death/doom from the Cantabrian coast.
Der Mancha Red plays doom/post-metal from Eindhoven, formed in 2023 and whose name references both Cervantes' idealist knight and the color of blood. Their sound builds slowly from contemplative passages to crushing post-metal crescendos.
Der_Warrior is a drone/doom metal project from Cologne-Ehrenfeld, Germany, active since 2011. They create massive, slowly evolving walls of sound through droning doom.
Derais plays funeral doom metal from Zwickau in Saxony, crafting compositions of glacial pace and immense weight that belong to metal's slowest and heaviest subgenre. Their music unfolds in extended movements that test the boundaries of tempo and endurance.
Derelicted is a doom/death metal band from Gelsenkirchen, Germany, formed in 2020. They channel the desolation of the post-industrial Ruhr through crushing doom/death.
Derisum is a black, doom, and gothic metal band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2014. The project weaves gothic atmospheres into a blackened doom metal framework.
Des Esseintes is a doom metal band from San Dona di Piave, in the Venice province of Italy, formed in 2020. Named after the protagonist of Huysmans' decadent novel, the project crafts heavy doom metal steeped in literary and philosophical darkness.
Descarado is a doom and stoner metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2014. The project delivers heavy doom and stoner riffs from the west coast.
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