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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.
New York's Dope have been grinding out aggressive industrial metal and nu-metal since the late '90s, anchored by frontman Edsel Dope's confrontational vocals and the band's machine-like precision. Albums like 'Felons and Revolutionaries' and 'Life' delivered bruising, sample-heavy metal that found a loyal audience among fans of Static-X and Ministry.
Dope Default is a stoner metal and rock band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2015. The band deliver heavy, fuzz-laden stoner grooves rooted in the Mediterranean stoner rock tradition.
Dope Smoker is a stoner and doom metal trio from Pembroke in South West Wales, self-described as coming from a place "where everyone smokes dope and surfs." Their 2025 album Doom Shop features guitarist-vocalist Gareth "Lightnin''" Hopkins, drummer Johnny Faster, bassist Thin Lizzy, and turntablist Paco across ten tracks of surf-tinged stoner doom.
Dopefight is a sludge, stoner, and doom metal band from Brighton, England, active since 2009 and self-styled purveyors of "sludge stoner goat noize." Their discography includes the BUDS album and several splits with Gurt, Dead Existence, and Lex Rhino, establishing them in the UK underground sludge scene.
DopeHammer is a brutal death metal band from Leeds, England, formed in 2015, whose tongue-in-cheek release titles like Smoke Weed Worship Slam and West Yorkshire Slam Torture signal their allegiance to the slam death metal underground. Their catalog also includes Artificial Enresination and Spaced: The Final Bluntier.
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