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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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AMENRA "Vanuytsel 7"" (2021)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Västerås-based doom/groove metal act active since 2009, anchoring their heavy, deliberate compositions in syncopated rhythms that generate both crushing weight and involuntary headbanging. Their sound combines doom's patience with groove metal's physical impact.
Spanish stoner/doom metal and progressive rock band from Cádiz, formed in 2023. They blend stoner-doom heaviness with progressive rock's expansive structures from the Andalusian coast.
Spanish funeral doom metal band from León, formed in 2022. They specialize in glacially slow, devastatingly heavy funeral doom inspired by barren, blasted landscapes.
Spanish doom/death/sludge metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2017. They merge three crushing subgenres into a massive, suffocating wall of sound.
Danish band from Copenhagen, active since 2000, whose sound spans melodic death, gothic, and doom metal with a gothic rock phase in between. Their genre-shifting journey reflects a restless creative evolution over two-and-a-half decades.
German psychedelic doom metal and rock band from Augsburg, formed in 2018. They merge doom metal's crushing weight with psychedelic textures and cosmic explorations.
Melodic death/doom metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, active since 2013 with six releases spanning demos to full-lengths. Their sound ranges from classic gothic rock to crushing old school death doom, drawing comparisons to Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, and Anathema.
Gusev-based doom metal act active since 2017, 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.
Death/doom outfit from Thessaloniki, formed in 2017. Their music inhabits the oppressive space where death metal's aggression meets doom's suffocating weight.
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