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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 and sludge metal band from London, active since 2010. They deliver crushing, slow-burning heaviness from the English capital.
Death-doom metal band from Brest in Brittany, France, formed in 2015. They merge the crushing weight of doom with death metal aggression from the westernmost tip of France.
Death-doom metal band from Herborn, Germany, formed in 2024. They merge the crushing weight of doom with death metal aggression from the Hessian Lahn-Dill region.
Riverside, New Jersey band working in death-doom, combining the crushing weight of doom metal with the brutality of death metal for a slow, dense, and suffocating sound.
Doom and sludge metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2021. They deliver crushing, oppressive doom-sludge from the French capital.
Houston, Texas death-doom band blending the slow, grinding heaviness of doom metal with death metal's brutality, creating a dense and oppressive sound rooted in the Texas extreme metal scene.
Doom and sludge metal band delivering the genre's slow, oppressive heaviness through down-tuned riffs and a suffocating atmosphere.
Black-doom act from Rybinsk in Yaroslavl Oblast, active since 2015. Cerebrium merges atmospheric black metal with doom pacing from the Volga River city.
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