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Finnish doom/black metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2014. They merge doom metal's crushing weight with black metal's wailing atmosphere.
UK post-black/doom metal project active since 2019, collaborating with Arx Atrata and Arx Silvestris. Their releases including Inundation, Fulmination, and Foundations explore elemental forces and natural cataclysm through dark, atmospheric metal.
Bleed for Me are a Buenos Aires black/doom metal band who have been active, under various interruptions, since the early 2000s, releasing a self-titled album, "The End...", and the full-length "Reborn" in 2017. Their music dwells on themes of sadness, pain, and despair, rendered through slow, crushing doom riffs layered with black metal atmospherics. The band has remained independent throughout their career.
German project from Berlin, formed in 2019, that evolved from dungeon synth origins toward death/doom metal. Their stylistic transformation from synthesizer atmospherics to crushing extreme metal represents a dramatic creative shift.
Doom/sludge metal act from Treviso, formed in 2003. Their music lurches forward with deliberate, oppressive weight, burying the listener beneath layers of corroded guitar tone.
Stockholm-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2017, 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 sludge/doom metal band from Dresden, formed in 2019. They craft heavy, toxic sludge-doom from the Saxon capital, befitting their lead-heavy namesake.
Doom metal outfit from Bolsward, formed in 2012. Their compositions stretch conventional structures to their limits, filling every measure with oppressive weight and deliberate, devastating momentum.
Doom metal outfit from Gävle, formed in 2015. Their compositions stretch conventional structures to their limits, filling every measure with oppressive weight and deliberate, devastating momentum.
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