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Chicago doom act crafting oppressively heavy slowcore from the Windy City, wrapping nihilistic weight in the kind of crushing riffs that flatten everything in their path.
Murphy, North Carolina black/doom metal project with four releases since 2017. EPs like cerulean and emptiness explore color and void through atmospheric heaviness from the western tip of the Tarheel State, deep in the Smoky Mountains.
Seattle doom metal project whose 2017 debut Night of the Mystics invokes the Lovecraftian fish-god through ritualistic heaviness. The Pacific Northwest's perpetual grey providing the perfect atmosphere for their oceanic dread.
Thessaloniki's Around the Fire craft a warm, earthy blend of doom, folk, and stoner metal that evokes communal gathering and ancient ritual. Since 2019, they've created music designed for shared experience, built on heavy grooves and folk-tinged melodies.
Arrant Saudade crafts funeral doom from London since 2015, their name combining "utter" with the Portuguese concept of profound longing. Over a decade of glacially-paced compositions place them among the UK's most emotionally devastating doom acts.
Arrastado is a stoner and doom metal project from Brasília, Brazil, formed in 2018 and built around home recordings under the name that translates roughly to "dragged" in Portuguese — apt for the slow, crushing tempos the band favors. Their releases include the album Isso Também Será Esquecido (This Too Shall Be Forgotten) and Hinos do Esquecimento, both available on Bandcamp and consistent with the heavy, fuzz-driven doom aesthetic. The project's DIY approach and introspective Portuguese titles reflect the broader character of Brazil's independent stoner-doom underground.
Arropiero takes its name from Spain's most prolific serial killer, and the Barcelona-based duo has been delivering suffocating doom and sludge metal since 2016. Their sound is as heavy and oppressive as the dark true-crime legacy their name evokes.
Arsen delivers sludge and doom metal from Stuttgart since 2020, named after the element arsenic — a slow poison that mirrors the gradual, crushing toxicity of their Swabian sound. The Baden-Württemberg capital's automotive industry provides an unlikely backdrop for their deliberately paced heaviness.
Arsenicum channels doom metal from an undisclosed Polish location since 2016. Named after the Latin word for arsenic, their poisonous approach to doom favors slow-acting, cumulative devastation.
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