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Sequim, Washington blackened sludge/doom project delivering punishing, slow-burn heaviness from the Olympic Peninsula. Their third volume is a nineteen-track monolith of crushing, atmospheric doom.
All Dead merges death and doom metal from Berlin since 2012. Their blunt, terminal name drives compositions that dwell in the finality of existence, channeled through the German capital's historically heavy cultural weight.
A Ghent-based solo black metal project operating under the identity "AoD is K.P," with logo artwork by Alice Mores. Their Demo cassette was released through Black Art Production in June 2022, marking a stark entry into the Belgian underground black metal tape circuit.
Allfather merges doom, groove, and sludge metal from the Medway towns in Kent since 2014, named after the Norse supreme deity Odin. Over a decade of crushing, multi-genre heaviness from the Thames estuary speaks to deep roots in the southeast's underground.
Alluring is a solo atmospheric black and doom metal project from Temuco, Chile, active since 2020. The project released its debut demo In the Cold Lips of Eros in 2020, followed by a remastered edition, the EP A Seductive Death, and a 2024 promo titled Kill Me, Alluring Diva. The project's own description centers on themes of "eroticism and agony," placing it within a gothic doom black metal aesthetic uncommon in southern Chile's underground scene.
Black/doom metal project of unknown origin named after the fourth book of the Lemegeton. Grimoire-derived heaviness.
Thessaloniki's Almost Heaven craft doom metal of melancholic beauty, using the genre's slow, crushing approach to explore the space between earthly suffering and transcendence. Active since 2016, their paradoxical name hints at the bittersweet quality of their sound.
Baltimore doom-inflected heavy rock drawing from the city's rich tradition of heavy music. Act One establishes a foundation of muscular, riff-driven heaviness with a classic rock swagger.
Alone in the Dark crafts doom and death metal from Báhoň near Bratislava since 2012. Their horror-game-referencing name drives over a decade of compositions that explore solitary dread from this small western Slovak town.
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