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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Nottingham-based drone and funeral doom duo of Tanya on bass, synth, and vocals and Joe on drums, active since 2013. Their discography includes collaborations with Vile Creature and Gnaw Their Tongues, and the environmentally themed The Slow Dying of the Great Barrier Reef, pushing the boundaries of heavy, glacial extremity.
Spanish stoner/doom metal band from Palma on Mallorca, formed in 2020. They craft heavy, sun-scorched stoner-doom from the Balearic Islands.
Moscow-based doom metal act active since 2015, crafting monolithic compositions built on slow-burning riffs and an atmosphere of pervasive heaviness. Their patient approach to songwriting lets each chord ring with crushing finality.
Stoner doom act from Poznań, formed in 2011. Their music moves at a glacial pace through layers of fuzz and psychedelic textures, inviting the listener into a trance-like state of heavy meditation.
Roermond-based doom/sludge outfit active since 2009, dragging their compositions through a swamp of distortion, feedback, and crushing tempos. Their sound sits at the punishing intersection where doom metal's patience meets sludge's confrontational aggression.
Doom/sludge metal power trio from Exeter, formed in 2025, drawing from Crowbar, Eyehategod, Bolt Thrower, and Black Sabbath. Their early demos deliver crushing South West sludge with riffs that span the spectrum from classic doom to death metal weight.
Moscow-based funeral doom project active since 2016, stretching compositions to their absolute breaking point through glacial tempos and overwhelming sonic density. Their music moves with the slow inevitability of geological time.
Bitterdusk were born in Santiago in 1995 and have built a slow-burning catalog that blends melancholic doom metal with progressive and NWOBHM influences, all sung entirely in Spanish. Their discography spans five albums from the debut "Pantheon" (1997) through "Guardián del Valle" (2024), the latter released on a 300-copy vinyl pressing by Czech label Doomentia Records and recorded at AudioCustom Studios in Santiago.
German gothic/doom metal band formed in 2017. They merge gothic metal's dark atmosphere and melancholy with doom metal's crushing heaviness.
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