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Dolmens is a symphonic black metal band from Lyon, France, formed in 2020. Named after ancient megaliths, they channel primordial energy through symphonic black metal.
Dooren is a symphonic metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, founded as a solo project by Ludmila Reis, who released the debut album "The Darkest Days" in January 2019. The band subsequently expanded its lineup and has released multiple records, including "Piano in The Dark" (2019) and "The Stream of Every Dream" (2023), exploring themes of mental health and psychological struggle through orchestral metal arrangements.
A melodic black metal band from Tyrol, Austria, formed in 1996 by members who would also be known for their work in Summoning-adjacent circles, signed to Prophecy Productions. Their third album 'Her Von Welken Nächten' became a reference work in German-language metal, and their extensive discography traces an evolution from symphonic black metal through acoustic folk approaches, with lyrics drawing on Romantic poetry and nature mysticism.
Down Syndrome started as a death/thrash metal act in the remote Komi city of Pechora before evolving toward symphonic death/black metal. Their controversial name and dramatic stylistic evolution from straightforward aggression to orchestral extremity mark one of the more unusual arcs in Russian extreme metal.
Down to Hell is a symphonic melodic black metal band from Malacky, Slovakia, formed in 2014. The project layers symphonic grandeur over melodic black metal.
Drace XII is a symphonic power metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, blending power and progressive metal with orchestral arrangements and influences from Visual Kei. The band released their debut album "Supreme Legacy" in 2016, produced by Edu Falaschi (ex-Angra), followed by "The 12th Ceremony" in 2018.
Draconian Reign is a symphonic deathcore band from Nottingham, self-described as hailing from "the cold heart of the United Kingdom." Their releases It Came from Hell (2022), Necromantic (2022), and Tragedy Eternal (2023) fuse symphonic grandeur with deathcore brutality.
Charlotte, North Carolina's Draconian Scepter have been one of the more durable American symphonic black metal acts since their founding in 2005, weaving orchestral grandeur into a framework of cold, aggressive riffing with a scope that sets them apart from the stripped-down USBM scene around them. Two decades in, their ambition to build something theatrical and cinematic within an extreme metal context remains their defining characteristic.
One of the longer-running acts in the American black/death underground, Temecula, California's Draconis have been forging their sound since 1998, navigating the tension between the corrosive atmospherics of black metal and the punishing technicality of death metal across nearly three decades. Their Southern California origin — far from the genre's Scandinavian birthplace — lends their work a sun-bleached ferocity that's distinctly their own.
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