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Dissident Pachyderm is a stoner metal band from Lyon, France, active since 2010. They deliver massive, elephantine stoner grooves from southeastern France.
Los Angeles's Divola have been bending stoner metal through an experimental prism since 2013, producing music that swaps the subgenre's usual comfort-food riff cycles for something stranger and more unpredictable. Operating in the LA underground, they bring a psychedelic restlessness to heavy music that resists the familiar and keeps the listener off-balance.
Seattle's DIYU — named for the Chinese realm of the dead — have been channeling the Pacific Northwest's damp, oppressive atmosphere into doom and stoner metal since 2019. Their sound is slow and heavy in the way Seattle seems built to produce, smoke-filled and gravitational, pulling the listener into the kind of narcotic heaviness the city's underground has specialized in for decades.
Djefvul is a doom and stoner metal band from Norrkoping, Sweden, formed in 2023. The project delivers heavy doom and stoner riffs.
Djupet is a stoner metal band from Skane County, Sweden, formed in 2025. The project delivers heavy stoner metal from southern Sweden.
Dog Chasing Sun plays stoner/doom metal from Moscow, active since 2018 and pursuing the blinding riff with canine determination. Their playful name belies the crushing weight of their fuzz-drenched, slow-motion compositions.
Doggod is a sludge/stoner metal band from Tübingen, Germany, formed in 2015. They deliver heavy, fuzz-drenched sludge and stoner riffs.
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.
Dogzilla is a stoner metal band from Tarnow, Poland, formed in 2017. The project delivers heavy, fuzzed-out stoner metal riffs from the Lesser Poland region.
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