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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Doghag is a Munich-based sludge metal act formed in 2023, delivering thick, distorted slabs of low-tuned heaviness. Their deliberately unpleasant name matches a sound that revels in ugliness and weight over beauty and finesse.
Dogs is a sludge/post-metal band from Germany, active since 2013. They create vast, heavy soundscapes that merge sludge's weight with post-metal's atmosphere.
Dogstone plays stoner/sludge metal from Novokuznetsk in the Kemerovo Oblast industrial region of Siberia, active since 2011. Their heavy, distortion-soaked sound draws natural parallels to the coal-mining city's industrial landscape.
Dolour is a five-piece sludge metal band from Edinburgh, featuring Gregor on vocals, dual guitarists Mal and Garth, bassist Ian, and drummer Choo. For fans of Eyehategod and Iron Monkey, the band pair blackened vocals with twin down-tuned riffing and low-end groove, as heard on their 2017 double A-side Crossing the Devine / Penitence.
Domkraft is a doom, sludge, and stoner metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2015. The project delivers crushing doom with sludge and stoner metal grooves from the Swedish capital.
Don Gastro is a sludge and stoner metal band from Pordenone, Italy, formed in 2023. The project delivers crushing sludge and fuzzed-out stoner metal from the Friuli-Venezia Giulia underground.
Doom Duo is a sludge metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2015. The project delivers crushing sludge metal from the west coast.
Doombo is a doom, sludge, and stoner metal band from Trieste, Italy, formed in 2023. The project delivers crushing doom weight with sludge and stoner metal grooves from the Adriatic coast.
Doomchild is a sludge and doom metal band from Chepstow, Wales, formed in 2012. The band deliver crushing, low-tuned heaviness rooted in the slow-burning power of sludge and doom metal.
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