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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Blackened drone/doom metal project from the UK, active since 2014. Their work merges the suffocating weight of drone and doom with blackened atmospherics.
Finnish black metal and gothic/doom metal band from Rovaniemi, active since 1991. With over three decades of history, they are one of Finland's earliest and most enduring black metal projects, originating from the Arctic Circle.
Reykjavík-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2016, conjuring thick clouds of fuzz-laden riffage and hypnotic, groove-driven compositions. Their sound channels the haze of 1970s proto-metal through a modern lens of distortion-worship and lysergic exploration.
German doom metal band from Berlin, formed in 2012. They craft slow, crushing doom metal from the capital's eclectic underground scene.
Eastbourne doom/sludge metal and hardcore band formed in 2022, creating what they call chaos sludge n' doom. Their 2024 album Low End Scum delivers gnarly, uncompromising bass-heavy beats with visceral confrontational energy.
Czech doom/death metal band from Fryšták, formed in 2014. They craft slow, crushing doom with guttural death metal vocals drawn from the depths of the genre's traditions.
Larissa-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2019, conjuring thick clouds of fuzz-laden riffage and hypnotic, groove-driven compositions. Their sound channels the haze of 1970s proto-metal through a modern lens of distortion-worship and lysergic exploration.
Spanish doom metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2019. They craft heavy, meditative doom metal from the Catalan capital.
Stoner doom act from Katowice, formed in 2019. 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.
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