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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Delirium Silence plays doom/death metal from Yakutsk, one of the coldest cities on Earth, active since 2015. Their extreme sub-Arctic location — where temperatures plunge below minus 40 — lends genuine, bone-deep cold to compositions already steeped in frozen despair.
Deller plays doom/sludge metal from Taganrog on the Sea of Azov, active since 2014. Their coastal southern Russian location provides a warmer-than-typical backdrop for the genre's characteristic heaviness and slow-motion aggression.
Dementify is a Bulgarian metal act from Stara Zagora blending doom, progressive, and stoner metal into a brooding, heavyweight sound. Their 2020 release 'The Night' explores introspective themes through slow-burning, emotionally heavy compositions.
Demenzia is a death metal and doom metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, active since 2005 with a catalog spanning multiple EPs and full-lengths including 'Machinima' and 'Different Seasons.' Their sound merges melodic death metal sensibilities with crushing doom passages.
Demimonde is an avant-garde metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2013 and pushing boundaries across death, doom, and gothic metal. Their genre-defying approach fuses experimental songwriting with the darkness and heaviness of multiple extreme metal traditions.
Demoghilas is a doom, heavy, and industrial metal solo project by Alfred Zilla from Rome, Italy, formed in 2017. The project explores themes of misanthropy, apocalypse, and horror through a dark sonic blend inspired by Rammstein and doom-gothic-symphonic metal.
Demon Lodge plays death/doom metal from the Netherlands, active since 2020 and offering shelter — however sinister — at the crossroads of both genres. Their infernal-hotel imagery lends a narrative dimension to slow, crushing compositions.
Demon Orgy is a sludge/doom metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2020. They deliver filthy, heavy sludge and doom from the Spanish capital.
Demonia is a doom and gothic metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2018. The project weaves somber gothic atmospheres with crushing doom metal heaviness in a darkly melodic Milanese metal vision.
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