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Der_Warrior is a drone/doom metal project from Cologne-Ehrenfeld, Germany, active since 2011. They create massive, slowly evolving walls of sound through droning doom.
Derais plays funeral doom metal from Zwickau in Saxony, crafting compositions of glacial pace and immense weight that belong to metal's slowest and heaviest subgenre. Their music unfolds in extended movements that test the boundaries of tempo and endurance.
Derelicted is a doom/death metal band from Gelsenkirchen, Germany, formed in 2020. They channel the desolation of the post-industrial Ruhr through crushing doom/death.
Derisum is a black, doom, and gothic metal band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2014. The project weaves gothic atmospheres into a blackened doom metal framework.
Des Esseintes is a doom metal band from San Dona di Piave, in the Venice province of Italy, formed in 2020. Named after the protagonist of Huysmans' decadent novel, the project crafts heavy doom metal steeped in literary and philosophical darkness.
Descarado is a doom and stoner metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2014. The project delivers heavy doom and stoner riffs from the west coast.
Descend into Despair plays funeral doom metal from Radauti in Bukovina, active since 2010 and one of Romania's premier funeral doom acts. Their glacially paced compositions take the listener on an inexorable downward journey into the most crushing, sorrowful corner of the doom metal spectrum.
From the high desert edge of Klamath Falls, Oregon, Descendant craft psychedelic doom metal that moves like tectonic plates — slow, immense, and hypnotic. Since 2013, they've channeled the vast, remote landscape of southern Oregon into spacious, hallucinatory riffs that blur the line between crushing weight and meditative trance.
Descending Void is a death and doom metal band from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, formed in 2012. The project merges death metal with doom metal's weight from the Volga region.
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