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Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Dwarf is a heavy metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2001. One of the longer-running heavy metal acts from the Swedish capital.
Dwarrowdelf is an epic and atmospheric black metal project from Southampton, releasing through Northern Silence Productions since 2020. Their fourth full-length The Fallen Leaves (2024) continues the project's exploration of sorrow, struggle, and sweeping melodic black metal across a seven-track, 42-minute journey.
Dweem is a stoner/doom metal band from France, formed in 2017. They deliver dreamy stoner doom.
A recently formed Oakland, California band, Dwel draws equally from sludge, doom, and post-metal's expansive sonic vocabulary, building dense, slow-burning compositions that owe as much to atmosphere as they do to raw heaviness.
Dwell is a doom/death metal band from Aarhus, Denmark, formed in 2017. They craft massive, slow-burning doom death from Denmark's cultural capital.
Dwell in Doom is a doom and gothic metal band from Sweden, formed in 2019. The project crafts dark doom/gothic atmospheres.
Dwell in Solitude is a depressive black metal project from Italy, formed in 2019. The project channels anguished and isolationist black metal steeped in despair.
Dweller is a doom/death metal band from Kildare, Ireland, formed in 2019. The band fuse the crushing weight of doom with death metal ferocity.
Dweller in Darkness is a black metal band from Karlstad, Sweden, formed in 2024. The project channels dark black metal from the Varmland region.
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