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'Big Jim' Shively is a one-man doom and psychedelic rock project from Nashville, Tennessee. Active since the early 1990s under the CRANK moniker, the project has amassed a sprawling catalog of recordings spanning cassette-era demos to full-lengths, blending heavy doom riffs with lysergic psychedelic wandering across more than two decades of output.
(0) is a Danish extreme metal band operating in the space between death metal, doom metal, and post-metal. Signed to Napalm Records, the band layers crushing low-end riffs with atmospheric, expansive passages characteristic of the post-metal tradition. Their approach places them within a lineage of Scandinavian bands pushing the boundaries between heaviness and texture.
(Ohlm) is a progressive doom metal band from Louisville, Kentucky. Since their 2013 debut EP "The Synaptic Dissent," the band has built a catalog of five releases that push doom metal into expansive, cerebral territory, culminating in their 2024 EP "the Division."
(waning) is a doom and post-metal band from Sacramento, California, active since 2007 with a catalog spanning eight releases. From the sparse beginnings of their 2007 self-titled EP through the expansive atmospherics of 2017's full-length "Still Hours," the band has steadily refined a sound rooted in glacial heaviness and brooding emotional weight. Their work occupies the space where crushing doom riffs dissolve into shimmering post-metal passages.
Death/doom metal band from Manaus, in the heart of the Amazon, who self-describe their style as Morbidoom Death Metal. Their music channels existential dread and the decay of being, drawing on the isolation and weight of their equatorial surroundings. Releases include the album Mórbidos Dizeres and the single SVB VMBRA, both marked by slow, oppressive riffs and a fixation on the abyss of human uncertainty.
...Under a Full Moon is a prolific doom metal project originally from Midland, Michigan, later relocating to North Carolina, with an enormous output since 2017. Across eleven releases — including four full-lengths and multiple EPs — the project has built a sprawling catalog of oppressive, ritualistic doom metal. The sheer volume and pace of output points to a singularly driven vision of unrelenting heaviness.
1000 Foot Bong is a doom metal band from Portland, Oregon, who announced themselves in 2023 with the four-track EP "Pre Roll." With song titles like "Munchies," "Grower," and "Resin Demon," the band wears their stoner-doom influences proudly and without pretense. The EP delivers slow, heavy riffs in the grand tradition of Pacific Northwest doom.
13 Bells of Doom is a doom metal band from Valdivia, Los Ríos, Chile, formed in 2015, featuring vocalist Paulo Lehmann alongside a lineup recorded at the Throne of Nefarious Estudio in Valdivia. The band released their self-titled debut album in August 2018 through Chilean label Apocalyptic Records in a limited run of 500 copies. Their music draws on themes of horror, death, and the occult.
1914 is a Ukrainian blackened death metal and doom metal band formed in Lviv in 2014, dedicated entirely to documenting the history and human cost of the First World War. Founded by Dmytro "Kumar" Ternuschak, the band weaves period speech samples, battle sounds, and archival recordings into dense, historically grounded compositions across albums including The Blind Leading the Blind (2018), Where Fear and Weapons Meet (2021), and Viribus Unitis (2025) on Napalm Records. Their meticulous conceptual approach and emotional weight have distinguished them within extreme metal's crowded field of historically-themed acts.
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