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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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A death/doom project from Bristol, Connecticut active since 2020, with no released recordings yet catalogued.
Indianapolis black/death/doom metal band formed in 2020, navigating the suffocating overlap of three of extreme metal's darkest subgenres.
A short-lived Philadelphia death/doom project, Call of Pripyat channeled sorrow, bleakness, and apocalyptic dread into crushing compositions before splitting up in 2022.
Gulfport, Mississippi death-doom band conjuring Lovecraftian dread through slow, crushing riffs and deep, cavernous atmosphere drawn from occultist themes and ritualistic horror.
Denver's Cavernous combine death and doom into slow, churning dirges built around crushing downtuned riffs, drawing on the death-doom lineage running from diSEMBOWELMENT through Evoken.
Cemetery Frost is a death-doom band from New Orleans, Louisiana, fusing the glacial tempos and crushing weight of doom metal with the guttural density of old-school death metal, producing a slow-motion devastation amplified by the swampy heaviness of the New Orleans underground.
Riverside, New Jersey band working in death-doom, combining the crushing weight of doom metal with the brutality of death metal for a slow, dense, and suffocating sound.
Houston, Texas death-doom band blending the slow, grinding heaviness of doom metal with death metal's brutality, creating a dense and oppressive sound rooted in the Texas extreme metal scene.
Phoenix, Arizona death-doom band merging the slow funeral weight of doom metal with the harsh vocal and riff aesthetics of death metal for a brooding and cavernous sound.
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