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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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HYPA HYPA Tour - Live In Ludwigsburg (2023)
05/25 @ The Theater at MGM National Harbor, National Harbor
Featured Progressive Metal Album
The Atlantic Albums (2019)
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Duchess is a NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from London, formed in 2015. The band revive the spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with classic riffing and traditional metal energy.
Duelist is a heavy metal and hard rock band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 2023. The band deliver classic-inspired heavy metal and hard rock with the energy of the Zagreb underground.
Duende is a heavy metal band from Zaragoza, Spain, active since 2007. Named after the Spanish concept of artistic passion, they deliver heavy metal with nearly two decades of spirit.
Duke Nukem plays blackened thrash, heavy metal, and punk from Saint Petersburg, active since 2014 and named after the iconic video game character. Their pop-culture reference drives irreverent, high-energy compositions that blend multiple aggressive genres with tongue-in-cheek attitude.
Dunces is a heavy metal band from Tohmajärvi, Finland, formed in 2020. They play heavy metal from the Finnish-Russian border region.
Dungeon Crawler hail from the small town of Manawa, Wisconsin, where they formed in 2019 with a sound anchored in classic heavy metal riffs dragged through doom's tar-thick tempos. The isolation of rural Wisconsin seems to seep into their music, which favors atmosphere and weight over flashiness. Think midnight rituals in a Midwestern basement — heavy, deliberate, and entirely self-sufficient.
A Florida-based heavy metal outfit formed in 2019, Dungeon Wolf traffics in the sword-and-sorcery aesthetic that the genre's earliest architects built their legacy on — straightforward riffing, anthemic hooks, and a no-frills devotion to classic metal's primal power.
Hailing from Norfolk, Virginia, DungeonKeep has been forging traditional heavy metal since 2018, channeling the dual-guitar crunch and melodic sensibility of the genre's golden era into material that wears its influences with both pride and conviction.
Dunwich is a heavy metal band from Ottersweier, Germany, formed in 2018. Named after the Lovecraftian horror, they play heavy metal with a cosmic dread undertone.
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