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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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German sludge/doom/southern metal band from Sondershausen in Thuringia, active since 2009. They fuse sludge and doom metal's crushing weight with southern metal's swagger and groove.
Heavy Doom / Sludge Metal / Grunge out of Texas.
Black Nóia is a Stoner/Doom Metal band from Assis, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2017. The band blends fuzz-soaked, bass-driven stoner rock with heavy psych and elements of Brazilian rhythms such as samba de terreiro, creating a dense and culturally distinct sound. Their single “O Baque,” released after a four-year hiatus, was described by Doomed and Stoned as an intense journey through slow-driven stoner rock and heavy psych.
Milanese doom metal cult formed in 2009, conjuring occult-drenched traditional doom with a devotion to the genre's Sabbathian roots. Their ritualistic approach and vintage production aesthetic have earned them a dedicated following in Europe's doom underground.
Stoner doom act from Porto, formed in 2024. 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.
Stoner doom act from Łódź, formed in 2021. 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.
Black Priest is a Doom Metal band from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2019–2020 by vocalist Vinicius Libânia, bassist Gg Neto, guitarist Raphael Ribeiro, and drummer Phil Drigues. Rooted in the classic heavy sound of Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, the band expanded into original material exploring depression, anxiety, and horror themes. They released the EP “The Soul Scar” and followed it with the full-length album “Fatal” in March 2024, a nine-track record recorded at FK Studio in Niterói.
Black Pullet is a one-person Black/Doom Metal project from Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil, formed in 2023. The project released the EP “A Man of Sorrows” as a self-produced digital release, presenting a four-part work that shifts between depressive slow doom metal on the opening and closing tracks and raw atmospheric black metal in the middle, unified by an atmosphere of cold isolation and melancholy.
German doom/heavy metal band formed in 2020. They merge doom metal's slow, crushing weight with traditional heavy metal's riff-driven power.
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