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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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London sludge/doom metal band signed to Church Road Records, formed in 2022. Their debut Crusaders of Joy features four extended tracks of devastatingly heavy, lo-fi doom described by fans as having all the groove of a wrecking ball.
Czech doom/death metal band formed in 2009, channeling the crushing weight of doom metal with death metal's guttural intensity. Their sound occupies the bleaker end of the Czech extreme metal spectrum.
Three-piece negative sludge metal band from Leicester, formed in 2021. Their releases including Writhing Between Birth and Death deliver abrasive, nihilistic sludge through a stripped-down, punishing approach.
Polish project merging black metal's atmospheric bleakness with doom metal's crushing deliberation, active since 2025. Their compositions stretch between glacial tempos and frenzied tremolo passages, creating a dynamic tension between despair and fury.
Doom/sludge metal act from Athens, formed in 2020. Their music lurches forward with deliberate, oppressive weight, burying the listener beneath layers of corroded guitar tone.
Death/doom outfit from Budapest, formed in 2017. Their music inhabits the oppressive space where death metal's aggression meets doom's suffocating weight.
Doom metal outfit from Gorizia, formed in 2014. Their compositions stretch conventional structures to their limits, filling every measure with oppressive weight and deliberate, devastating momentum.
Avaldsnes-based gothic/doom metal act active since 2015, pairing doom metal's crushing weight with dark romantic atmospheres and melancholic keyboard textures. Their compositions weave sorrowful melodies through a foundation of slow, heavy riffing.
Bergen-based stoner/doom metal outfit forging monolithic riffs and crushing grooves since 2016. Drawing from the rich tradition of Scandinavian doom, their sound evokes vast, frozen landscapes through slow-burning heaviness.
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