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Seattle's DIYU — named for the Chinese realm of the dead — have been channeling the Pacific Northwest's damp, oppressive atmosphere into doom and stoner metal since 2019. Their sound is slow and heavy in the way Seattle seems built to produce, smoke-filled and gravitational, pulling the listener into the kind of narcotic heaviness the city's underground has specialized in for decades.
Djefvul is a doom and stoner metal band from Norrkoping, Sweden, formed in 2023. The project delivers heavy doom and stoner riffs.
Doctor Cyclops is a doom metal band from Voghera, in the Pavia province of Lombardy, Italy, formed in 2012. The project channels classic doom metal weight and vintage heaviness.
Dodentocht plays death/doom/sludge metal from Eindhoven, formed in 2023 and whose Dutch name — meaning "death march" — evokes a grim procession through crushing, slow-motion heaviness. Their triple-genre approach piles the weight of doom, death, and sludge into an overwhelming sonic mass.
Dog Chasing Sun plays stoner/doom metal from Moscow, active since 2018 and pursuing the blinding riff with canine determination. Their playful name belies the crushing weight of their fuzz-drenched, slow-motion compositions.
A gothic doom metal band from Graz, Austria, whose debut self-titled EP (2025) spans five tracks and 25 minutes of low-tuned, oppressive riffing and keyboard atmosphere situated between classic doom and Gothic metal. The release includes a cover of Type O Negative's 'Love You To Death' and conceptually explores themes of excessive pride, power, and inevitable decline.
Greensboro, North Carolina's Dogbane draw from the deep well of classic doom and heavy metal, channeling the plodding weight of Black Sabbath through a lens worn in by years of Southern soil. Formed in 2011, they traffic in crushing riffs and an old-school sensibility that favors atmosphere over brutality. Their sound sits comfortably in the tradition of bands who treat heaviness as a slow, inevitable force rather than a blunt instrument.
Dogme is a funeral doom metal/ambient project from Nantes, France, formed in 2018. They create glacially slow funeral doom woven with ambient textures from the Loire estuary.
Dolorian is a black/doom metal and ritual ambient band from Oulu, Finland, active since 2019. They create hypnotic, ritualistic soundscapes merging black metal, doom, and ambient.
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