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A recently formed Oakland, California band, Dwel draws equally from sludge, doom, and post-metal's expansive sonic vocabulary, building dense, slow-burning compositions that owe as much to atmosphere as they do to raw heaviness.
Dwell is a doom/death metal band from Aarhus, Denmark, formed in 2017. They craft massive, slow-burning doom death from Denmark's cultural capital.
Dwell in Doom is a doom and gothic metal band from Sweden, formed in 2019. The project crafts dark doom/gothic atmospheres.
Dweller is a doom/death metal band from Kildare, Ireland, formed in 2019. The band fuse the crushing weight of doom with death metal ferocity.
Frederick, Maryland's Dweller in the Valley has navigated the crossroads of black, death, and doom metal since 2013, weaving together extremity and desolation into a sound that is as bleak as the genre tags suggest.
Dwellnought is a black and doom metal band from Varese, Italy, formed in 2025. The project merges atmospheric black metal with monolithic doom metal weight.
Dygora is a death metal and hardcore band from south London, formed in 2018, styling their sound as "Southside Death." Their releases include Chambers of Reflection, Ghetto Spiritual, Find Yourself (It Was a Trap), and Southside Tapes, with active live shows across London and Cambridge.
Dying Age is a doom metal band from Lodz, Poland, formed in 2023. The project delivers crushing doom metal weight from central Poland.
Dying Giants is a doom/sludge metal band from Occitanie, France, formed in 2017. They deliver monumental doom and sludge from southern France.
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