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Don Gastro is a sludge and stoner metal band from Pordenone, Italy, formed in 2023. The project delivers crushing sludge and fuzzed-out stoner metal from the Friuli-Venezia Giulia underground.
Don Jamieson is a New Jersey-born stand-up comedian known for comedy deeply rooted in heavy metal and hard rock culture. He co-hosted VH1 Classic's That Metal Show alongside Eddie Trunk and Jim Florentine for 14 seasons from 2008 to 2015. Jamieson has released five comedy albums on Metal Blade Records, beginning with Live & Hilarious (2011), which debuted at number 9 on the Billboard Comedy Albums chart.
A brand-new entry from Kansas City, Missouri, Don Tvsk formed in 2025 at the intersection of black metal's cold fury and doom's crushing torpor. The pairing is a natural one — both genres traffic in despair, just at different tempos — and Kansas City's underrated extreme metal community provides a fitting home for such an uncompromising project. With their ink barely dry, they are among the most recently formed black/doom acts in the current American underground.
Donatus is a death metal band from the Mannheim/Heidelberg/Bad Rappenau area of Germany, formed in 2021. They deliver crushing death metal from the Rhine-Neckar region.
Donge is a death metal band from Markina-Xemein, Basque Country, Spain, formed in 2015. They deliver heavy death metal from the rural Basque interior.
Donjon is a heavy metal band from Dieppe, France, formed in 2022. Named after the castle keep, they deliver fortified heavy metal from the Norman coast.
Donkerkarnuffel is a clown-themed extreme metal band from London, formed in 2013, blending grindcore, black metal, death metal, and hardcore under a "cirque de mort" concept. Their lineup of Chris "Haggis" Holmes, Jamie "Mr Bloody" Brewer, Alex "Wriggles" Wrigley, and Sean "Skeats" Keatley released the fourteen-track Rise of the Red Nosed Nemesis in 2024.
Donn is a black metal band from Chester, England, formed in 2017. The project channels the atmospheric and aggressive traditions of black metal in their independently produced material.
Donnerhain is a pagan metal band from Ahlen, Germany, formed in 2024. They draw on Germanic pagan themes through heavy, folk-influenced metal.
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