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Distorted Reflection is a doom metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2024. The band craft slow, heavy doom metal compositions drawing from the genre's classic traditions.
Distressful Project plays gothic/doom metal from Pyatigorsk in the North Caucasus spa region, active since 2016. Their mineral-spring city backdrop contrasts sharply with music built on emotional anguish and crushing heaviness.
Fitchburg, Massachusetts's Ditch Mimes have been wallowing in the murk where doom metal, sludge, and noise rock collide since 2011, making them one of the more weathered acts in New England's underground heavy scene. Their sound leans into the abrasive, feedback-scorched end of sludge, the kind of music that feels like asphalt in summer — slow, heavy, and suffocating.
Divinatio is a death and doom metal band from Istanbul, Turkey, formed in 2021. The project merges death metal with doom metal's weight.
Savage Doom / Death Metal with Grindcore influences from Plano.
Divine Sovereign is a melodic black and doom metal band from the Kuyavia-Pomerania region of Poland, formed in 2025. The project blends melodic black metal with doom metal's crushing weight.
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.
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