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People Watching (2024)
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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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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Doppalganger is a post-metal band from Eskilstuna, Sweden, formed in 2013. The project crafts atmospheric post-metal landscapes.
Doprdele plays brutal death metal and grindcore from Taganrog on the Sea of Azov, active since 2021. Their deliberately crude Russian name drives music that matches its vulgarity with extreme sonic violence.
Dor is a depressive/post-black/doom metal project from Barbadas in Galicia, formed in 2022 and whose name carries the weight of longing and sorrow in multiple Romance languages. Their multi-genre approach layers the despair of DSBM, the expansiveness of post-black metal, and the crushing weight of doom into a deeply melancholic whole.
Dor Feafaroth plays black metal from Vladivostok on Russia's Pacific coast, active since 2004 and among the easternmost black metal acts in Europe-adjacent Russia. Their Tolkien-derived Sindarin name speaks to the fantasy-influenced strain of black metal.
Dor Perpetua plays doom/death metal from Abrantes in central Portugal, formed in 2025 and whose Portuguese name — "perpetual pain" — captures the endlessness of the suffering channeled through their crushing compositions. Their doom/death fusion maximizes both genres' capacity for sustained anguish.
Dorchadas is a raw and atmospheric black metal project from Scotland, formed in 2020 and self-described as "dark Scottish black metal," citing Ruadh's Sovereign as a primary inspiration. Prolific since their 2020 debut Sgail, the project has released numerous works including Uisge, Disciple of the Witness, and the 2025 EP A Twisted Blade Sheathed in Vertebrae.
Dordeduh plays atmospheric and progressive folk/black metal from Timisoara, formed in 2010 by former members of Negura Bunget and carrying forward that legendary band's vision of Transylvanian black metal infused with traditional Romanian folk elements. Their music weaves acoustic folk passages and ethnic instruments through expansive, spiritually charged black metal compositions that rank among Romania's most distinctive extreme metal output.
Dorian is a heavy metal band from Brunswick, Germany, formed in 2015. They deliver classic heavy metal with strong melodies and powerful riffs.
Boston's Dorian Gray has been flying the flag for American power metal since 2011, bringing the city's deep rock tradition to a genre that demands soaring vocals, galloping rhythms, and melodies that stick. Named for Oscar Wilde's portrait-cursed aesthete, the band leans into the theatrical and the grandiose that power metal requires, delivering the kind of anthemic hooks that made the European power scene a global phenomenon but filtered through a New England sensibility. They've been a steady presence in a region not always known for embracing the genre's more operatic tendencies.
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