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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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San Jose's Dark Earth root their stoner metal in the heavy, fuzz-drenched low end that defines the genre — slow enough to feel the weight, loud enough to feel the heat. The Bay Area act has been cultivating their sound since 2012.
Dark Filth Fraternity is a stoner/heavy metal band from Lahti, Finland, active since 2006. With nearly two decades of brotherhood, they deliver filthy stoner and heavy metal.
Dark Is the Water is a stoner/doom/post-metal/rock band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2016. They blend multiple heavy styles into dark, aquatic soundscapes from the second city.
Dark Mother is a stoner/doom metal band from Nottingham, England, formed in 2015. They deliver maternal heaviness through stoner and doom metal from the East Midlands.
Dark Ocean Circle plays stoner metal and rock from Stockholm, active since 2021 and channeling the depths of Nordic seas through fuzz-laden, groove-heavy compositions. Their oceanic name suits the dark, swelling character of their heavy, repetitive sound.
Dark Origins is a stoner/doom metal act from Helsinki formed in 2022, exploring the primal, heavy roots of rock music through fuzz-laden riffs and hypnotic grooves. Their name points backward to the dawn of heavy music, channeling early Sabbath and Pentagram through Finnish gloom.
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.
Bristol, Rhode Island's Dark Ritual sit at the slower, heavier end of things — stoner and doom metal built for long drives and longer nights, a band that lets riffs breathe and atmosphere do the work.
Dark Shaman is a stoner/doom metal act from Syracuse, Sicily, formed in 2023 and channeling the sun-scorched heaviness of the Mediterranean through fuzz-drenched riffs and hypnotic repetition. Their sound evokes ritualistic, psychedelic doom in the tradition of Electric Wizard and Sleep.
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