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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Dare to War plays melodic death/doom metal from Samara on the Volga, active since 2017 and channeling martial courage through compositions that balance melodic beauty with crushing heaviness. Their challenge-to-combat name drives music that stands its ground between aggression and sorrow.
Dargolad grinds through low-tuned sludge and doom metal from Sacile in the Pordenone province, layering thick, distorted riffs over plodding tempos that evoke swampy desolation. Their sound favors crushing weight and sustained heaviness over melodic ornamentation.
Dark Buddha Rising is a psychedelic drone/sludge/doom metal band from Laitila, Finland, active since 2014. They create massive, hypnotic ritual doom that merges psychedelia with crushing heaviness.
Portland's Dark Castle traffic in the slow-burning intersection of sludge, doom, and post-metal, building massive sonic structures that collapse under their own crushing weight. Since 2006, they've favored expansive, suffocating dynamics over anything quick or easy.
Lorain, Ohio's Dark Century drag doom's lumbering despair into death metal's pit of brutality, the result a slow-grinding hybrid that feels genuinely oppressive. The band has been at it since 2009, building their sound with deliberate, suffocating patience.
Peoria's Dark Citadel stake their claim at the crossroads of black, death, and doom metal, a brooding convergence they've been exploring since 2023. Their fortress-like sound piles genre upon genre into something bleak and immovable.
Dark Corpus is a melodic groove/doom metal band from Sélestat, France, formed in 2018. They blend melodic grooves with doom metal heaviness from Alsace.
Dark Future is a death-doom metal band from Kladno, Czech Republic, formed in 2017 and blending death metal's intensity with doom's oppressive pacing. Their compositions stretch across extended structures, building atmosphere through deliberate, crushing heaviness.
Dark Graves is a melodic death/doom metal band from Sønderborg, Denmark, formed in 2018. They explore melodic heaviness through the lens of death and doom metal.
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