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Dorthia Cottrell is a Richmond, Virginia singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of doom metal band Windhand. Her solo work, begun with a self-titled debut in 2015 on Forcefield Records, channels Appalachian folk, gothic atmosphere, and sparse acoustic arrangements. Her second solo album Death Folk Country (2023) on Relapse Records was shortlisted for the Newlin Music Prize and further established her as a distinctive voice at the intersection of folk and extreme metal.
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Double Space is a stoner/doom metal band from Aarhus, Denmark, active since 2006. With nearly two decades of activity, they are long-standing pillars of Danish stoner and doom.
Doubtsower is a one-person blackened and experimental doom metal project from Wales, formed in 2021 and releasing through UBAii, a sub-label of Unbidden Audio. Their catalog includes Asphyxiation of a Seasick Soul (2021), The Endless Shadow of Despicable Power (2022), and Nothing Reduced to Everything (2024).
Douce Morphine is a gothic/doom metal band from Tours, France, active since 2004. Their name meaning 'sweet morphine,' they deliver narcotic gothic doom from the Loire Valley.
Los Angeles-based Dowager has been building doom and sludge monoliths since 2014, a fitting project for a city where everything from the traffic to the smog seems to move at a funeral pace. Their sound carries the sprawling, oppressive weight of L.A.'s vastness — slow tempos, massive guitar tones, and a sludge-influenced abrasion that keeps the prettiness of doom metal from becoming comfortable. There's a distinctly urban ugliness to their sound, music made in and for a city that grinds people down.
Down the Abyss is a doom/post-metal band from Saxony, Germany, formed in 2015. They explore the depths of heavy, atmospheric doom intertwined with post-metal's expansiveness.
Dragged is a sludge/doom metal band from Germany, formed in 2020. They create heavy, oppressive sludge and doom metal.
Bangor, Maine's Dragontomb have been cultivating their corner of the doom metal underground since 2015, with the dark forests and harsh winters of northern New England providing an apt backdrop for slow, sepulchral compositions built on crushing low-end and suffocating tempos. Their sound is more death-doom in spirit than traditional doom, favoring bleak atmosphere over the melodic mourning of the European school.
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