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Double Cross is a heavy metal trio from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed by guitarist/vocalist Alex Albernaz, bassist Thiago Brotão, and drummer Gus. Drawing inspiration from dark old-school acts such as Mercyful Fate, Venom, and Motörhead, the band released their debut EP "Obey Thy Master" in May 2020, recorded at Solo Studio in Belo Horizonte.
Double Deuce is a heavy metal band from Eksjo, Sweden, formed in 2012. The project delivers classic heavy metal from the Smaland region.
Athens, Georgia's Double Ferrari has been crafting progressive heavy metal since 2017 in one of the American South's most storied college music towns, bringing their own angular take to a city better known for indie and alternative. Their sound emphasizes the heavy end of progressive — not the noodling, ethereal variety, but music that keeps its bones in traditional metal while building structures complex enough to reward close listening. The Athens scene's inherent experimentalism seems to have worked its way into their DNA in the best possible way.
Double Homicide plays death metal from Miass in the Chelyabinsk region of the Urals, formed in 2024. Their criminal-violence name drives compositions that double down on death metal's most murderous impulses.
Double Space is a stoner/doom metal band from Aarhus, Denmark, active since 2006. With nearly two decades of activity, they are long-standing pillars of Danish stoner and doom.
Double-Wide is a southern metal band from Armagh and Coleraine in Northern Ireland, formed in 2010 with a deep blues influence and low-tuned, groove-heavy sound inspired by Crowbar, Down, and Corrosion of Conformity. Their albums 18 Wheels of Misery (2010) and Heavy Oil (2012) showcase their riff-forward, bottom-end-driven approach to southern sludge.
Doubt Plague is a U.S.-based black metal project that emerged in 2021, operating with the anonymity that suits the genre's most interior-facing traditions. The music traffics in the cold, contemptuous fury of black metal stripped of any redemptive warmth — the kind of project that seems to exist because it has to, not to be seen. No location, no face, just the plague of doubt rendered as serrated tremolo and blastbeats.
Richmond, Virginia's Doubtfire has been hybridizing blackened sludge and progressive metal since 2015, working in a city whose heavy music community has long favored the ambitious and the abrasive in equal measure. The band layers the suffocating low-end mass of sludge metal against black metal's caustic atmosphere, then unsettles both with progressive structures that deny easy resolution. Richmond's status as a Southern post-industrial hub gives their sound an almost geographical texture — worn down and spiky at once.
Doubtsower is a one-person blackened and experimental doom metal project from Wales, formed in 2021 and releasing through UBAii, a sub-label of Unbidden Audio. Their catalog includes Asphyxiation of a Seasick Soul (2021), The Endless Shadow of Despicable Power (2022), and Nothing Reduced to Everything (2024).
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