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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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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.
Frederick, Maryland's Dweller in the Valley has navigated the crossroads of black, death, and doom metal since 2013, weaving together extremity and desolation into a sound that is as bleak as the genre tags suggest.
A Nashville, Tennessee black metal project formed in 2024, Dweller of Graves works within the genre's most austere traditions, conjuring a sound built around cold riffs, harsh vocals, and an unflinching commitment to darkness.
Dwellers of the Twilight is a black metal band from Paris, France, active since 2008. They dwell in the twilight between light and darkness through atmospheric black metal.
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