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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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Death-doom metal band from Karlsruhe, Germany, formed in 2017. They combine the crushing heaviness of doom with the aggression of death metal from the Rhine Valley.
Black-doom metal band from Rennes in Brittany, France, active since 2010. They merge black metal darkness with the crushing weight of doom.
Doom and sludge metal band from Castellon de la Plana, Spain, formed in 2014. They deliver crushing, oppressive doom-sludge from the Mediterranean coast.
Brutal Death Metal from Houston, Texas / Seattle, Washington / Phoenix, Arizona (early); Houston, Texas (later).
Black-doom-heavy metal act from The Hague, active since 2012. Celesterre crafts atmospheric, multi-faceted metal that bridges black, doom, and traditional heavy metal traditions.
Celestial Corrosion blends the morbid atmosphere of death metal with the slow, oppressive weight of doom, creating a suffocating sound well-suited to Dallas's heavy underground. Their music moves between glacial tempos and mid-paced death metal aggression.
Gothic doom-black metal band from Tartu, Estonia, active since 2002. They weave gothic darkness and doom weight through a black metal framework from Estonia's university city.
Doom, drone, and sludge metal band from Zweibrucken, Germany, active since 2015. They create massive, slow-moving walls of sound that explore the heaviest extremes of low-tempo metal.
Death-doom-stoner act from Nijmegen, with renewed Bandcamp activity since 2020 but a history stretching back to the early 1990s. Celestial Season is a veteran Dutch doom act, pioneering atmospheric death-doom in the Netherlands.
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