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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Dødshandling is a raw black metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2021. Their name meaning 'death act,' they deliver uncompromising raw black metal.
Dodskatter is a depressive black metal project from the Czech Republic, active since 2019 and whose Scandinavian-styled name speaks to the genre's Nordic roots. Their music trades in the slow-burning despair and lo-fi atmosphere that define DSBM at its most emotionally raw.
Dødsriket is a black metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2019. Their name meaning 'realm of death,' they craft cold, Norwegian-influenced black metal.
Dodsritual is a black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2017. The project channels ritualistic and dark black metal from the Norwegian capital.
Dodsskuggen is a black metal band from Nordland, Norway, formed in 2014. The project delivers atmospheric black metal from above the Arctic Circle in northern Norway.
Dodthorn is an experimental black metal and grindcore band from Riga, Latvia, formed in 2025. The project pushes the boundaries of extreme music by fusing black metal with grindcore and experimental elements.
Doppelganger plays atmospheric black metal from Roslavl in Smolensk Oblast, active since 2014. Their doppelganger name — the uncanny double — channels the horror of encountering one's own ghostly reflection into atmospheric compositions of unsettling beauty.
Doth plays black metal from Russia with later connections to Canada, formed in 2022 and bridging two continents through atmospheric compositions. Their monosyllabic, archaic-English name lends antiquarian gravitas to their bi-continental black metal.
Dunmharu is a black metal band from Rush, Ireland, formed in 2013. Named from the Irish word for murder, the band channel dark aggression through raw black metal.
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