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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Dust in Mind is an electronic/symphonic/groove metal band from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2015. They create a modern fusion of electronic elements, symphonic grandeur, and groove metal.
Dust n Brush is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Siewierz, Poland, formed in 2012. The project blends melodic death metal with metalcore intensity.
Dust You Turn Into is a death metal and deathcore band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2023. They pride themselves on defying easy genre classification while delivering heavy, conceptual music.
Dustborn is a band from České Budějovice, Czech Republic, formed in 2019, that evolved from symphonic death metal into atmospheric black metal. Their music explores dystopian themes, post-apocalyptic visions, and dark sci-fi narratives.
Dusted Angel formed in Santa Cruz in 2008, though several of its members had musical roots together that stretched further back into the local heavy and punk scenes. The band brought together Clifford Dinsmore on vocals, Eric Fieber and Scott Stevens on guitars, Elliot Young on bass, and later Steve Ilse on drums, creating a sound that moved away from speed and into thick, riff-centered weight. Their music draws from doom, stoner metal, and heavy rock, with long grooves, Sabbathian pacing, and a rhythmic patience that gives the riffs room to breathe. Earth Sick Mind introduced the group's low-slung attack, combining gravelly vocals, heavy blues movement, and a sense of Californian underground rock grit. The later Side of the Dirt continued that direction with a seasoned feel, emphasizing chemistry over flash. Dusted Angel's music works because it sounds like players making the kind of heavy rock they would want to hear themselves: loud, warm, unpretentious, and rooted in the slow physical pleasure of a massive riff.
Duster69 is a stoner metal band from Weiden, Germany, active since 1999. With over a quarter century of activity, they are long-standing veterans of the German stoner metal scene.
Dusteroid is a stoner metal band from London, active since 2010. Their catalog spans three releases including TyrannoSonor (2010), To Fathom Hell (2016), and Stellarium (2019), all available on vinyl LP and CD through their Bandcamp store.
A solo technical and progressive death metal project based in Portland, Oregon, Dustin Behm has been releasing intricate, guitar-forward material since 2017, pushing the genre's compositional boundaries with dense arrangements and demanding musicianship.
Dustland is a heavy metal band from Villa San Giovanni, in the Reggio di Calabria province, Italy, formed in 2014. The project channels classic heavy metal from the toe of the Italian boot.
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