Doxmo is a doom/sludge metal band from Mexico City, Mexico. The band released the EP "Desde el privilegio" in 2017, their only release listed on Metal Archives. Their Bandcamp page operates in Mexican pesos and links to their Facebook presence as Doxmo Band.

Lansing, Michigan's Dozic have been grinding out a gritty blend of stoner and thrash metal since 2012, combining the lumbering heaviness of the Midwest with the riff-forward momentum of classic Bay Area thrash. Their sound has the loose, high-energy feel of a band that built itself in dive bars, where fuzz-coated grooves and shredded tempos share equal billing.

McKinney, Texas outfit Dr. Brutacalypse have been weaponizing grindcore, death metal, and hardcore into a single blunt-force instrument since 2013. Their approach is relentlessly chaotic — short, pulverizing tracks that slam together punk urgency, guttural extremity, and North Texas aggression without pausing to take a breath.

Out of Russellville, Arkansas, Dr. Butcher has been dealing in a particularly nasty strain of goregrind and death metal since 2011, built on surgical-grade brutality and an almost comedically grim aesthetic. The band's dedication to the uglier end of the death-grind spectrum keeps things deliberately primitive and visceral, with no interest in polish or subtlety.

Rochester, New York's Dr. Jeckyl emerged in 2022 as a straightforward heavy metal act drawing from the classic tradition — think twin guitars, driving rhythms, and the kind of riff-centered songwriting that kept the NWOBHM alive across the Atlantic. Still early in their run, the band brings a raw enthusiasm to a sound that prizes songcraft over extremity.

Rising from De Motte, Indiana in 2020, Dracolich takes the frigid, dungeon-crawling end of black metal and pushes it toward something raw and lo-fi, with a deliberate cult aesthetic that prizes atmosphere over production sheen. The name itself — borrowed from the undead dragon of fantasy lore — telegraphs a project steeped in darkness and the kind of occult iconography that feels genuinely obsessive rather than decorative.

Charlotte, North Carolina's Draconian Scepter have been one of the more durable American symphonic black metal acts since their founding in 2005, weaving orchestral grandeur into a framework of cold, aggressive riffing with a scope that sets them apart from the stripped-down USBM scene around them. Two decades in, their ambition to build something theatrical and cinematic within an extreme metal context remains their defining characteristic.

One of the longer-running acts in the American black/death underground, Temecula, California's Draconis have been forging their sound since 1998, navigating the tension between the corrosive atmospherics of black metal and the punishing technicality of death metal across nearly three decades. Their Southern California origin — far from the genre's Scandinavian birthplace — lends their work a sun-bleached ferocity that's distinctly their own.

Heavy Progressive Rock (early); Death Metal, Ambient / Neoclassical (later) from Fort Worth.