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Disfallen plays doom/death metal from the Atlantic port city of Kristiansund, formed in 2022 and channeling Norway's coastal weather into slow, heavy compositions. Their name's suggestion of falling from grace carries into music that descends slowly and inevitably into crushing darkness.
Disjecta Membrae is a funeral doom metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2017. Their name meaning 'scattered remains,' they create glacially slow funeral doom.
Diskordia is a symphonic doom metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne, England, formed in 2026. The band merge the grandeur of symphonic metal arrangements with the crushing heaviness of doom metal.
Dismal Crux is a heavy/thrash/doom metal band from Granada, Spain, formed in 2022. They forge a dark crossroads of heavy, thrash, and doom metal.
Dismal Sleep is an epic and funeral doom metal band from Greece, formed in 2021. Their debut Beyond the Veil (2021) features seven tracks of oppressively slow, sorrowful doom metal spanning nearly forty-five minutes, with titles like Lowering of the Coffin and Hovering Above a Mouldy Tomb.
Dismorphia is a death and doom metal band from Ankara, Turkey, formed in 2011. The project merges death metal with doom metal from the Turkish capital.
Dispain is a sludge/doom metal band from Madrid, Spain, active since 2008. They deliver crushing sludge and doom metal steeped in suffering.
Dispersed Ashes is a funeral doom/black metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, formed in 2018. They create vast, glacially slow funeral doom intertwined with black metal's bleakness.
Dispersia plays gothic/doom metal from Cluj-Napoca, active since 2017 and scattering dark, melancholic atmospheres across slow-moving compositions. Their name's suggestion of dispersal and fragmentation carries into music that spreads sorrow like mist through the Transylvanian valleys.
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