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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Dræng is a sludge/stoner metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2024. They deliver heavy, fuzz-soaked sludge from the German capital.
Duality of Man is a sludge metal band from Brunswick in Lower Saxony, active since 2016 and exploring the tension between light and darkness through crushing, low-tuned compositions. Their philosophical name frames their heavy music as an examination of humanity's contradictory nature.
Dukatalon are an Israeli doom/sludge metal trio formed in Tel Aviv in 2007. The band draws from disparate musical backgrounds spanning chillout, country, blues, post-punk, and heavy metal, resulting in a heavier sound that gained them a place on Relapse Records. They released their debut Saved By Fear in 2009 (reissued on Relapse in 2010), and their sophomore album Involuntary Action arrived in 2020 after a lengthy recording process across multiple studios.
Dulle Griet is a sludge, black metal, and post-hardcore trio from London, formed in 2024 by vocalist Ivan Ferreira, drummer Ardo Cotones, and multi-instrumentalist Nick Desmond. Self-described as "an apocalyptic space opera of cosmic proportions," they draw from Swedish metal, Rodin, and Mussorgsky, debuting with their 2024 self-titled EP recorded at Bonafide Studios.
Dulur Gris is a sludge metal band from Arosio, in the Como province of Lombardy, Italy, formed in 2025. The project delivers crushing sludge metal weight from the pre-Alpine foothills.
Dunerider is a doom/sludge/stoner metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2021. They ride through desert-scorched doom, sludge, and stoner metal.
Dungeon Master is a sludge and doom metal band from London and Southend-on-Sea, formed in 2020. The band deliver crushing, low-tuned sludge and doom metal with an emphasis on heaviness and atmosphere.
Duracefal plays sludge/doom metal from Yekaterinburg, Russia's Ural Mountains capital, formed in 2022. Their pharmaceutical-sounding name drives heavy, methodical compositions from the geographic dividing line between Europe and Asia.
Durge is a sludge and doom metal band from Kendal, Cumbria, formed in 2014. Their debut The First Days of Dystopia features four extended tracks of heavy, heady instrumental doom and sludge, recorded by Rob Crossland in January 2014 and mixed by Ben Booker.
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