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Los Angeles' Deathkings drag sludge and doom metal through the city's sprawling grimness, piling on suffocating low-end and tempos that test patience in the best possible way. They've been reigning over that miserable corner of the LA scene since 2014.
Pittsburgh's Deathmass has been dragging the Steel City's underground through a tar pit since 2018, blending doom's suffocating weight with the reckless velocity of thrash. The result is a lurching, headbanging hybrid that feels as heavy as the city's industrial bones.
Born in 2024 in Warrior, Alabama, Deathrite Shaman conjures doom metal steeped in Southern gothic atmosphere, where slow, crushing riffs feel like they've risen from the red-clay earth itself. A fledgling act already trafficking in genuine dread.
Deathwalking is a doom/death metal band from Santiago de Compostela, Spain, active since 2013. They walk the path of doom and death from Galicia's pilgrimage capital.
Pittsburgh's Deathwhite has carved a singular path through melodic doom and gothic metal since 2014, pairing somber, clean-sung melodies with dense, emotionally heavy arrangements. Their sound evokes the grey architecture of an industrial city learning to mourn beautifully.
Deathwind plays death/doom metal from Moscow, formed in 2023 and channeling the cold winds of mortality through slow, crushing compositions. Their elemental name suits music that combines death metal's aggression with doom's inexorable weight.
Debase is a doom and groove metal band from Malmo, Sweden, formed in 2018. The project blends doom metal with groove riffing from southern Sweden.
Cincinnati's Debauch has been mining the sepulchral depths of death/doom since 2011, where impossibly slow tempos and cavernous production create a sense of ritualistic despair. Ohio weight pressed into wax.
Deber is a funeral doom metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2014. The project crafts glacially slow and emotionally devastating doom.
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