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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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Doom metal outfit from Verona, formed in 2026. Their compositions stretch conventional structures to their limits, filling every measure with oppressive weight and deliberate, devastating momentum.
Abruzzo-based doom metal act active since 2025, 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.
Funeral doom entity from Oslo, formed in 2002. Their compositions unfold over vast stretches of time, building cavernous walls of distorted guitar that press down with the weight of a collapsing universe.
Sundsvall-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2023, 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.
Czech sludge/doom metal band from Holešov, formed in 2014, incorporating drone and noise elements into their crushing sound. Their split release Fullmoon Alchemy Narcotic Session with DROM showcases their ritualistic approach to extreme heaviness.
Built around a Hammond B-3 organ, channeling 70s proto-metal heavyweights like Deep Purple into proggy, jazz-inflected doom.
German stoner/doom metal band formed in 2016. They blend blues-infused stoner grooves with doom metal's crushing weight.
London-based doom/sludge outfit active since 2024, 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.
Finnish doom/stoner metal band from Oulu, formed in 2010. They deliver tusked, heavy doom-stoner from the dark north of Finland.
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