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Doomslang is a doom/stoner metal band from Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil, featuring vocalist Sofia Nasar alongside guitars, bass, and drums. The band released the EP "Pier Della Vigna" in September 2020, a female-fronted traditional doom effort spanning four tracks.
Houston female-fronted traditional doom. Signed to Ripple Music.
Dope Default is a stoner metal and rock band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2015. The band deliver heavy, fuzz-laden stoner grooves rooted in the Mediterranean stoner rock tradition.
Dope Smoker is a stoner and doom metal trio from Pembroke in South West Wales, self-described as coming from a place "where everyone smokes dope and surfs." Their 2025 album Doom Shop features guitarist-vocalist Gareth "Lightnin''" Hopkins, drummer Johnny Faster, bassist Thin Lizzy, and turntablist Paco across ten tracks of surf-tinged stoner doom.
Dopefight is a sludge, stoner, and doom metal band from Brighton, England, active since 2009 and self-styled purveyors of "sludge stoner goat noize." Their discography includes the BUDS album and several splits with Gurt, Dead Existence, and Lex Rhino, establishing them in the UK underground sludge scene.
Dopehaze plays sludge/stoner metal from Moscow, active since 2016 and wrapping their heavy compositions in a pharmacological fog. Their intoxication-themed name captures the mind-altering, consciousness-blurring quality of their fuzz-heavy sound.
Dopelord is a doom and stoner metal band from Lublin, Poland, formed in 2012. The project channels heavy, ritualistic doom and stoner riffs with a psychedelic edge.
Dopemancer plays stoner/doom metal from Barcelona, formed in 2023 and conjuring hazy, riff-driven rituals steeped in the genre's psychedelic tradition. Their sorcerer-of-intoxication name captures the hypnotic, mind-altering quality of their fuzz-drenched compositions.
Dopeotter is a doom and stoner metal band from Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, formed in 2021. The project delivers heavy doom and stoner riffs from the Carpathian foothills.
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