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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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Deadsmoke is a doom and sludge metal band from Bolzano, Italy, formed in 2016. Known for amplifiers buried in distortion and hypnotic down-tuned riffs, the band explores isolation and existential dread across albums like 'Mountain Legacy' and 'Forest of the Damned.'
DeadWaterCreek plays progressive sludge metal from Moscow, active since 2017 and navigating the murky intersection of progressive complexity and sludge metal's crushing weight. Their stagnant-water name evokes the toxic, slow-moving heaviness that defines their sound.
Deadwound is a blackened sludge metal/hardcore band from Kingston upon Thames, England, formed in 2017. They deliver blackened sludge with hardcore intensity from greater London.
Deaf Giant is a sludge/groove metal band from Lübeck, Germany, formed in 2020. They combine sludge metal's crushing weight with groove metal's rhythmic power.
Deafhex is a sludge/doom/post-metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2019. They create massive, slow-building walls of sound that merge sludge, doom, and post-metal into overwhelming heaviness.
Death Crew is a death metal and sludge metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2021. The project blends death metal with sludge weight.
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.
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.
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