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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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Tales from the Thousand Lakes (Live at Tavastia) (2024)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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Buffalo's Dog Day Sunrise have been delivering groove metal with hard rock swagger since 2018, a fitting output from a rust belt city that has always responded to music with blunt physicality. Their sound sits in the working-class groove metal tradition — not flashy, not seeking approval, just heavy riffs driven forward with the kind of blue-collar conviction that never sounds forced.
Ann Arbor, Michigan's Dog Soldier have been doing the work of classic heavy metal since 2015, operating in a college town that has long sustained a genuine underground scene beneath its academic surface. Their music draws from the genre's most direct traditions — strong riffs, melodic sense, and a commitment to heavy metal's timeless appeal that doesn't require irony or revision.
Doga is a melodic heavy metal band from Karviná, Czech Republic, formed in 2023. They blend catchy melodies with heavy metal muscle for an accessible yet hard-hitting sound.
Greensboro, North Carolina's Dogbane draw from the deep well of classic doom and heavy metal, channeling the plodding weight of Black Sabbath through a lens worn in by years of Southern soil. Formed in 2011, they traffic in crushing riffs and an old-school sensibility that favors atmosphere over brutality. Their sound sits comfortably in the tradition of bands who treat heaviness as a slow, inevitable force rather than a blunt instrument.
Dogjaw is a heavy/speed metal and punk rock band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2011. They deliver ferocious speed metal spiked with punk rock attitude.
Dogma Blue was a heavy metal band from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, active from April 2018 until they split up in September 2020. The independent outfit operated within Curitiba's underground metal scene during their brief two-year run.
Dogsflesh is a thrash, heavy metal, and crossover band from Teesside, originally formed in 1982 by Rob Moore as one of the pioneers of English hardcore punk. Their fourth studio album March of the Damned (2025) continues the band's four-decade evolution from hardcore punk roots into heavy thrash and crossover territory, recorded at Prism Studios in Stoke-on-Trent.
Dogtor is a heavy/speed metal and hard rock band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2019. They prescribe high-energy speed metal and hard rock.
Dogz is a heavy metal band from Sandomierz, Poland, formed in 2018. The project delivers classic heavy metal from the historic Swietokrzyskie town.
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