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Desollado is a stoner/sludge/doom metal band from Mexico City, Mexico, formed in 2017. The band released a self-titled EP in 2019 and their debut full-length, Morir por Nada, in 2024, recorded at Grábale Grábale studios in Mexico City. They are signed to Loud, Slow and Distorted Riffs.
Desoluna is a doom and gothic metal band from Malmo, Sweden, formed in 2015. The project crafts dark doom/gothic metal from southern Sweden.
Desparity plays death/doom metal from Rotterdam, formed in 2022 and channeling inequality and division into slowly crushing compositions. Their name's evocation of disparity carries social weight within a genre traditionally focused on personal and existential despair.
Desperandum Gothica is a doom/black metal act from Erembodegem in Belgium, formed in 2017 and blending the slow, crushing weight of doom with black metal's tremolo-driven atmosphere. Their Latin-tinged name evokes gothic desperation, which aptly describes their music's emotional register.
Madison's Despojo formed in 2024 at the intersection of doom and post-metal, building slow-burning compositions where weight and atmosphere are equally weighted. The Spanish name — meaning dispossession or stripping away — signals an aesthetic of reduction: everything unnecessary discarded, leaving only resonance.
Despond have been active in the American black metal underground since 1996, an unusually long tenure for a project whose Bandcamp presence keeps the mission minimal. Three decades of existence give their work a stubborn, weathered authenticity that newer projects cannot fake.
Destiny Old Die is a doom metal band from Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Pernambuco, Brazil, operating within the greater Recife metropolitan area. Active and listed on Encyclopaedia Metallum, the band contributes to the underground doom metal scene of northeastern Brazil.
One of Austin's most consistent doom bands over twelve years. Six albums of melodic doom.
Destruction of Orion is a solo funeral doom metal project from Sofia, Bulgaria, helmed entirely by Tehina Spasova, who handles all vocals, lyrics, and instrumentation. With releases like 'States of Horror' and 'Decreasing Brightness,' the project delivers crushing, glacially paced doom steeped in melancholy.
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