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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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Dausa is a black, doom, and sludge metal band from Vilnius, Lithuania, formed in 2019. The project merges black metal's atmosphere with doom and sludge metal's crushing weight from the Baltic underground.
Dawn to Come is a post-metal, progressive, and sludge metal band from Presov, Slovakia, formed in 2011. The project blends post-metal atmospheres with progressive and sludge elements.
Days of Our Mutation plays sludge/stoner metal from Moscow, active since 2012 and tracking humanity's slow transformation through heavy, fuzz-laden compositions. Their evolutionary-horror name frames each song as a chapter in a gradual, irreversible metamorphosis.
Dead Existence is a sludge/doom metal band from London, England, active since 2007. With nearly two decades of crushing heaviness, they are veterans of London's sludge/doom scene.
Dead in Montana is a sludge metal/hardcore band from Mataró, Spain, active since 2012. They fuse sludge metal's crushing weight with hardcore's raw intensity from the Catalan coast.
Dead Myrick is a sludge/stoner metal band from Dresden, Germany, formed in 2019. They deliver thick, fuzz-drenched heaviness that crawls through sludge and stoner territory.
Dead Wall is a sludge metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2024. They build impenetrable walls of crushing sludge.
Deadend Men is a doom and sludge metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2023. The project delivers crushing doom and sludge from the Ukrainian capital.
Deadpan is a sludge metal/hardcore band from Bristol, England, formed in 2020. They deliver deadpan sludge and hardcore from the West Country.
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