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Chaos Moon is a black metal project founded in Philadelphia by Alex Poole, blending raw black metal with doom and funeral doom influences into a sound of dense atmospheric despair. Active since the mid-2000s with breaks and reformations, their 2017 album Eschaton Mémoire is considered their most critically acclaimed work.
Chaosmonaut is an experimental doom and sludge metal band from Boise, Idaho, formed in 2017, that draws on jazz, drone, and progressive rock alongside classic doom influences like Yob and Earth. The band is known for long-form compositions and a freeform approach to heavy music.
Progressive doom metal band from Vantaa, Finland, formed in 2018. They blend progressive complexity with the crushing weight of doom.
Chapel of Bones is a solo death/doom metal project from the suburbs of São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2025 by a musician credited as The Conductor. The project released its debut EP "Veil of Darkness" in October 2025, a three-track release described as trading in crushing riffs and funereal atmosphere with lyrical references that include Shakespeare. The project is unsigned and independently released.
Doom metal band from Michelstadt in the Odenwald forest, Germany, formed in 2015. They craft slow, crushing doom steeped in oppressive atmosphere from the forested hills of southern Hesse.
Doom and sludge metal trio from Neuchatel, Switzerland, formed in 2014 as a duet by Thierry and Arnaud. Their releases like Kind Of Savagery embody a stripped-down approach centered on crushing heaviness.
Indiana's Charybdis forge a hybrid of death metal, groove, and hardcore that refuses easy categorization, with the visceral directness of punk bleeding into extreme metal's more crushing textures. Their sound has a blunt, functional brutality that suits the unpretentious character of the Midwestern underground.
Pennsylvania's Chasms dwell in the overlap of death doom and classic doom metal, conjuring slow, grief-stricken heaviness that unfolds with deliberate, funereal patience. Their compositions carry the weight of the genre's most suffocating traditions.
Doom-stoner band from Novi Sad, Serbia's second-largest city, formed in 2017. Cheap Moonshine delivers lumbering, fuzz-laden grooves from the Vojvodina capital.
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