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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Swamp Lord is a Kalamazoo, Michigan band formed in 2016 that blends death/doom metal with hardcore punk sensibilities, creating a suffocating sound that bridges extreme metal and the raw energy of hardcore.
Death/doom metal band from Mount Prospect, Illinois, formed in 2022, delivering the suffocating combination of cavernous death metal heaviness and doom metal's funeral pace that defines the death-doom subgenre.
Formed in Frederick, Maryland in 2025, Taartaros arrive fully formed at the bleakest convergence of black, death, and doom metal — a suffocating trifecta that trades no one style for another. Their sound is early and uncompromising, built on cold dissonance and funeral-pace heaviness laced with the caustic edge of death metal aggression.
Oakland's Thane have been cultivating their death/doom sound since 2015, drawing on the Bay Area's tradition of heavy, serious metal and steering it into the slower, more oppressive corridors of the genre hybrid. Their music shares the grinding patience of classic death-doom — long songs, cavernous production, and a heaviness that accumulates with deliberate intent.
Panama City, Florida's The Killing Toke have been building their sprawling black/death/doom hybrid since 2013, drawing from across the extreme metal spectrum without ever sounding scattered. Their name gestures toward the psychedelic, and indeed there's a haze running through their music that softens the brutality just enough to add disorientation to the dread. They're a singular entry in the Florida panhandle underground — a region better known for beach towns than for extreme metal.
Hutchinson, Kansas act The Space Between pursue the crushing middle ground between death metal's aggression and doom's suffocating weight, forging death-doom that moves at a glacial, deliberate pace. Formed in 2019, their sound is marked by low tunings and a relentless sense of dread.
Santa Cruz's The Sun Must Die channel death-doom's most oppressive impulses — slow, tar-thick riffs laid over cavernous death metal vocals — into a sound that feels as though the California coastline has been swallowed by darkness. Formed in 2015, the project leans into the nihilistic end of the doom-death spectrum.
Named after the cartilage at the base of the sternum, Denver's The Xiphoid Process have been crafting death/doom metal since 2010, pairing the crushing slow churn of doom with the morbid heaviness of death metal. Their Colorado roots lend a desolate, high-altitude atmosphere to their glacially paced material.
A Phoenix, Arizona death/doom act also formed in 2023, Thorn blend the suffocating weight of funeral-adjacent doom with death metal's aggression, conjuring an atmosphere as unforgiving as the desert heat.
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