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Dioid is a one-person doom and stoner metal project from Blackburn, England, created by Bryan Shuttleworth, who writes, performs, records, and produces all material solo. The 2011 debut demo Dark Observations features six tracks of raw, largely improvised doom with deliberate imperfections left intact, plus a cover of Electric Wizard's Funeralopolis as a bonus on the physical CD.
Dionisium is a doom, sludge, and stoner metal band from Lonate Pozzolo, in the Varese province of Lombardy, Italy, formed in 2021. The project channels heavy, fuzzed-out riffs through a ritualistic Dionysian lens.
Dionisyan is a death and doom metal band from Palermo, Sicily, formed in 2021. The project merges death metal's brutality with doom metal's suffocating weight in a dark Sicilian metal experience.
Dionysiaque is a doom metal band from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2018. They explore Dionysian themes through heavy, ritualistic doom from Alsace.
Dionysius is a melodic death and doom metal band from Dublin, Ireland, formed in 2011. The band merge the melodic aggression of death metal with the crushing weight of doom.
Directional is a black, doom, and sludge metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2021. The project blends extreme metal styles into crushing soundscapes.
A doom and stoner duo from Linz, Austria, known for lengthy, low-tuned compositions built around a baritone guitar. They released the LP 'pyroclastic storm' in 2016, and contributed the track 'I Hate To Save' to the Weedian compilation 'Trip to Austria,' which surveys the country's stoner and doom underground.
Salisbury, Maryland's Dirt Woman have been cultivating their stoner/doom sound since 2017, drawing from the flat coastal plain of the Eastern Shore to produce music that feels thick, hazy, and unhurried. Their sound has the slow gravitational pull of something that grows out of quiet places that have had time to think.
Dirtweed is a sludge, stoner, and doom metal trio from Rosario, Argentina, consisting of Maximiliano Dana on guitar and vocals, Juan Ignacio Garcia on bass, and Guido Rumi on drums. The band released their debut single "El del Vómito" in July 2024 and followed it with a self-titled four-track album in February 2026, recorded at 312 Music Studio and mixed and mastered by Gonzalo Villagra at Estudios Audion.
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