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Featured Album
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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Russian stoner/doom outfit active since 2021, 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.
Finnish sludge/doom metal band from Turku, formed in 2020. They craft murky sludge-doom from Finland's former capital.
Spanish death/doom metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2019. They craft crushing death-doom from the Catalan capital.
Atmospheric blackened doom metal project from Liege, Belgium, formed in 2021. Their pandemic-era demo recordings of tracks like "Walpurgisnacht" blend atmospheric black metal with doom's crushing weight, with an unusual reggae influence listed among their inspirations.
Liverpool-based doom/sludge outfit active since 2015, 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.
Doom/sludge metal act from Brighton, formed in 2021. Their music lurches forward with deliberate, oppressive weight, burying the listener beneath layers of corroded guitar tone.
Danish psychedelic stoner/doom metal band from Aalborg, formed in 2020. They conjure murky, bog-dwelling psychedelic doom from the marshlands of northern Jutland.
Czech black/death/doom metal band from Volyně, formed in 2021. They weave together the aggression of black and death metal with doom metal's crushing weight for a multi-layered extreme metal sound.
Veszprém-based doom metal act active since 2024, 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.
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