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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
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Doomstone is a technical death metal band from Trier, Germany, formed in 2019. They merge doom-heavy atmospheres with technical death metal precision.
Houston female-fronted traditional doom. Signed to Ripple Music.
Doomswagger plays southern metal from Naberezhnye Chelny in Tatarstan, active since 2021. Their unlikely combination of doom's weight with southern rock's swagger creates a distinctive sound from the Russian heartland, thousands of miles from the American South that inspired the genre.
DoomThrone is a black/funeral doom metal project from Germany, active since 2009. They craft glacially slow funeral doom laced with black metal's bleakness.
Florida's DoomWake weaves together depressive black metal and funeral doom into a sound that feels like watching something beautiful rot in the subtropical heat — slow, suffocating, and shot through with cold tremolo melody. Active since 2017, the project operates at the intersection of hopelessness and atmospherics that defines the DSBM tradition, though their doom metal undercurrent adds a physical weight that purely black metal acts often lack. It's music that lingers long after it ends, like a fever that won't break.
Philadelphia's Door Hinge Circumcision landed in the death metal underground in 2024 with a name designed to provoke and music that follows through on the promise. The band fits into Philly's long tradition of brutish, unapologetic death metal — a city that has always favored ugly sounds delivered without ceremony or polish. Fresh out of the gate, they're already signaling a willingness to lean fully into the uncompromising end of the spectrum.
Door Into Emptiness is an avant-garde black metal band from Gomel, Belarus, active since 2011 with an experimental discography spanning releases like 'Wave' and the 'Structur' series. Their unconventional approach incorporates ambient and electronic elements into a black metal framework.
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 groove and heavy metal band from Bad Hofgastein, Salzburg, Austria, who released their debut EP 'Awakening' as an independent act. They play in the accessible, mid-tempo end of Austrian heavy metal, drawing on groove metal dynamics.
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