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Doomherre is a doom and stoner metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2023. The project delivers crushing doom from the Swedish capital.
Doomicidal is a doom metal power trio from Bath, Somerset, formed in 2016, featuring guitarist-vocalist Migo Gage, bassist Roger Densham, and drummer Barney Clements. Their 2019 debut album Shadow of the Gallows, recorded at Stage 2 Studios, channels 1970s-inspired doom with psychedelic touches from what they call "the mystic realms of Somerset."
Doomicus is a doom and heavy metal band from Norway, formed in 2021. The project channels crushing doom metal weight with classic heavy metal foundations.
Doomknarr is a funeral doom and gothic metal band from Poland, formed in 2025. The project crafts glacially slow and emotionally devastating doom metal.
Doomnezeu plays doom metal from Romania, active since 2019 and whose name — a portmanteau of "doom" and the Romanian word "Dumnezeu" (God) — translates roughly to "Doom God." Their blasphemous wordplay channels divine power into the genre's heaviest, slowest compositions.
Doomocracy is an epic progressive doom metal band from Heraklion, Crete, formed in 2014. Their three albums The End Is Written, Visions & Creatures of Imagination, and Unorthodox establish them as one of the most prominent doom metal acts from the Greek islands.
Dooms Vain is a doom metal band from Trondheim, Norway, formed in 2007. The project delivers slow and monolithic doom metal from the historic Norwegian city.
Doomsday Braves is a doom and stoner metal band from East Ayrshire, Scotland, formed in 2020 and self-described as "big, boozin' blues." Their four-track debut EP Big 'n' Heavy (2020) spans nearly thirty minutes of introspective, heavy stoner doom tackling everyday mental struggles.
Doomsday Crusaders is a sludge/doom metal band from Le Havre, France, formed in 2016. They crusade through crushing sludge and doom from Normandy's port.
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