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Astral Drowning is a post-black and doom metal project from Mendoza, Argentina, self-described as "melancholic doom black metal from the South," that began with the demo Ocaso in 2013. Their 2022 album Traditional Music from Rooms Underwater, composed over nearly a decade, incorporates melodica, flute, percussion, and field recordings alongside conventional metal instrumentation to create a deeply atmospheric sound.
Astral Forest crafts melodic death and doom metal from Gdynia on the Baltic coast since 2020. Their name conjures a woodland among the stars — impossible, ethereal — and their Tri-City compositions reach for similar transcendence.
Astral Goat Dominion is a doom and stoner metal band from Germany, formed in 2025, whose name evokes the cosmic, occult, and psychedelic imagery central to the stoner doom aesthetic. The band is among the newest entries in the German stoner doom underground.
Astral Kompakt is an instrumental stoner rock band from Cologne, Germany, whose catalog spans from the 2018 demo through releases like Obacht, Auszeit, and the 2024 album Goldader. The band's purely instrumental approach channels stoner and doom metal's heavy, riff-driven groove without vocals, letting the weight of their compositions speak for itself.
Astral Mantra crafts doom and death metal from Saint Petersburg since 2022. Their cosmic-chant name drives compositions of meditative heaviness from Russia's cultural capital.
Rochester, New York doom metal project with five releases since 2021. Their catalog — from the Black Sabbath-channeling Space Grass single to the ambitious Deus Ex Machina — blends classic doom worship with cosmic themes from Western New York.
Astral Queen creates doom and death metal from Konin in Greater Poland since 2014. Their regal-cosmic name drives compositions of majestic heaviness from this central Polish industrial town.
Astral Rising has been crafting death-doom metal from the Parisian suburb of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés since 1992, making them one of the oldest active extreme metal acts in the Île-de-France. Over three decades of cosmic doom speak to extraordinary dedication.
One of Finland's oldest active doom metal bands, Astral Sleep has developed a unique strain of psychedelic doom they call "Astral Doom Musick," fusing doom, jazz, rock, and noise into expansive compositions. From their Tampere origins through releases on Sliptrick and Saarni Records, their music explores dreams, astral planes, and the philosophical essence of existence.
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