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Docteur Z is a heavy metal band from Yutz, France, formed in 2020. They deliver heavy metal from the Lorraine border region.
Doctor Cyclops is a doom metal band from Voghera, in the Pavia province of Lombardy, Italy, formed in 2012. The project channels classic doom metal weight and vintage heaviness.
Doctor Death is a thrash metal band from London, formed in 2013. The band channel high-energy thrash with an aggressive, no-frills approach to riff-driven metal.
New Britain, Connecticut's Doctor Dementia have been crafting heavy metal with a classic sensibility since 2017, representing a corner of New England that rarely gets spotlight in metal coverage but has always harbored devoted practitioners. Their approach leans into the hard-rocking, fist-in-the-air tradition of heavy metal that treats the genre's pleasures as eternal rather than retro.
Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult was a Scandinavian heavy metal supergroup formed in Oslo, Norway in 2009. The lineup united former Turbonegro vocalist Hank von Helvete, multi-instrumentalist Tim Sköld (Marilyn Manson, KMFDM), guitarists Anders Odden (Cadaver, Satyricon) and Audun Stengel (Apoptygma Berzerk), and drummer David Husvik (Extol). The band signed to Season of Mist and released one album, I Declare: Treason (2011), before disbanding.
Doctrina plays metalcore from Moscow, active since 2019 and delivering the genre's characteristic blend of heavy breakdowns and aggressive vocals. Their teaching-doctrine name frames their music as instruction in controlled sonic violence.
Doctrina is a heavy metal band from Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina, with Christian lyrical themes and a roots dating to the mid-1990s. The band released demo recordings in the early 2000s and earned wider regional recognition when they were selected to represent Neuquén at the Cosquín Rock festival, one of Argentina's premier rock and metal events.
Document 6 is a death metal/grindcore band from Aachen, Germany, active since 2013. They deliver relentless grind and death metal extremity.
St. Louis's Dodecad have been pushing sludge metal into experimental and technical territory since 2015, working in a Midwestern city with a genuine appetite for heavy music that defies easy categorization. Named for the number twelve, they bring a mathematical restlessness to the genre's usual swamp-trudge, resulting in sludge that rewards close listening as much as the gut-punch of volume.
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