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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
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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Death Watch is a sludge/doom metal band from Aberdeen, Scotland, active since 2013. They keep death watch through crushing sludge and doom from the Granite City.
Deathbell is a doom metal band from Toulouse, France, formed in 2018. They toll crushing doom from the pink city of southwestern France.
Deathcup is a sludge/doom metal band from Berlin, Germany, active since 2013. They pour out thick, toxic sludge and crushing doom from Germany's capital.
Deathfiend is a sludge/doom metal and crust/hardcore punk band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2022. They merge crushing sludge doom with punk ferocity from the second city.
Deathwalking is a doom/death metal band from Santiago de Compostela, Spain, active since 2013. They walk the path of doom and death from Galicia's pilgrimage capital.
Deathwind plays death/doom metal from Moscow, formed in 2023 and channeling the cold winds of mortality through slow, crushing compositions. Their elemental name suits music that combines death metal's aggression with doom's inexorable weight.
Debase is a doom and groove metal band from Malmo, Sweden, formed in 2018. The project blends doom metal with groove riffing from southern Sweden.
Deber is a funeral doom metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2014. The project crafts glacially slow and emotionally devastating doom.
Decabrist plays doom/post-metal from Moscow, active since 2018 and named after the Decembrist revolt of 1825 against the Russian autocracy. Their historical-revolutionary name frames their heavy, atmospheric compositions as acts of creative resistance.
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