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Doomknarr is a funeral doom and gothic metal band from Poland, formed in 2025. The project crafts glacially slow and emotionally devastating doom metal.
DoomThrone is a black/funeral doom metal project from Germany, active since 2009. They craft glacially slow funeral doom laced with black metal's bleakness.
Dreams After Death is a one-man atmospheric and funeral doom metal project from Budapest, created by Andras Illes in 2011, who performs all instruments solo. The 2012 album Fading Chains features six tracks spanning over an hour, each named after emotional states from Anger through Sadness, Peace, and Love to the thirteen-minute closer Nothingness.
Dromos is a funeral doom metal band from London, formed in 2024, featuring vocalist Sami, dual guitarists Patrick and Amadeus, bassist Matt, and drummer Jhoni Rodrigues. Their self-titled debut, described as a "sonic landscape of despair," was recorded between Brazil and the UK, mixed by Peter Vitus and mastered by Colin Marston, with cassettes released through Dry Cough Records.
Dysphorian Breed is a funeral doom and death metal band from Umea, Sweden, formed in 2014. The project crafts devastating doom from northern Sweden.
The Ukrainian city of Donetsk serves as headquarters for this doom metal and funeral doom metal operation, whose arsenal includes cavernous low-end and hypnotic repetition. Each riff lands like a monolith dropped from orbit.
Straddling the line between black metal and doom metal, this Polish actfrom Poznań fuses venomous shrieks over walls of distortion into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2016, and the compositions unfold with ritualistic patience and venomous intent.
Part of the island that birthed Sólstafir and Misthyrming, this act channels doom metal and funeral doom metal with a focus on tectonic grooves and sorrowful melodic passages. Formed in 2025, based in Reykjavík, the low end alone could register on seismographs.
Selfoss, Iceland — doom metal and funeral doom metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2023, they deal in earth-shaking distortion and mournful clean passages. Mournful melodies surface between waves of suffocating heaviness.
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