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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Danishmendt is an industrial blackened sludge metal/post-hardcore band from Paris, France, formed in 2021. They create a volatile fusion of industrial textures, blackened sludge, and post-hardcore.
Shreveport, Louisiana's Dankhdjinn channel the bayou's oppressive humidity into doom and sludge metal of considerable weight, their sound as mired and slow as the land they come from. Active since 2015, they embody the Southern heavy underground's dirtiest traditions.
Danny, Champion of Nothing is an atmospheric sludge/post-metal band from Edinburgh, Scotland, active since 2013. They craft immersive, emotionally heavy sludge and post-metal from the Scottish capital.
Dargolad grinds through low-tuned sludge and doom metal from Sacile in the Pordenone province, layering thick, distorted riffs over plodding tempos that evoke swampy desolation. Their sound favors crushing weight and sustained heaviness over melodic ornamentation.
Dark Buddha Rising is a psychedelic drone/sludge/doom metal band from Laitila, Finland, active since 2014. They create massive, hypnotic ritual doom that merges psychedelia with crushing heaviness.
Portland's Dark Castle traffic in the slow-burning intersection of sludge, doom, and post-metal, building massive sonic structures that collapse under their own crushing weight. Since 2006, they've favored expansive, suffocating dynamics over anything quick or easy.
Chicago's Dark Ocean Society draw from doom, sludge, and post-metal equally, crafting music that feels as heavy as Lake Michigan in winter and as expansive as the city's industrial skyline.
Detroit, Michigan is fertile ground for heavy, ugly music, and Dark Passages have leaned into that inheritance since 2022 — a sludge, stoner, and doom hybrid that sounds exactly like the city it comes from.
Washington State's Dark Sea Dream has spent over a decade dragging sludge and doom through post-metal's expansive landscapes, constructing slow-burning pieces that feel as wide and grey as the Pacific Northwest coastline.
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