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Death-doom act from the Netherlands, formed in 2017. Coffin Lurker merges crushing death metal with funereal doom pacing.
Johnson City, Tennessee's Coffin Smoke grind out slow-burning doom and sludge metal soaked in murk and misery, conjuring a suffocating heaviness that settles in like a fog that never lifts.
Westminster, SC's Coffin Torture drag listeners through oppressive corridors of doom and sludge metal, stacking massive, feedback-drenched riffs with a suffocating sense of dread.
Coffin Trip is a blackened death and doom metal band from Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 2025. The band released their debut album "Pathless Endeavor" in April 2025, with tracks including "Selenic Sun." Their sound blends blackened death metal with doom and doomgaze textures.
Coffins formed in Tokyo, Japan in 1996, anchoring their sound in the lumbering intersection of doom metal and death metal, with heavily downtuned guitars, slow tempos, and gore-obsessed lyrical themes. After a period of demos and splits, the band signed to Razorback Records and released their debut studio album Mortuary in Darkness in 2005, following it with The Other Side of Blasphemy (2006) and Buried Death (2008) on 20 Buck Spin. They have maintained a prolific release schedule across over twenty split releases alongside four full-lengths.
Indianapolis's Coffinworm built a cult following with their caustic mix of black metal, doom, and sludge — bleak, punishing records like IV.I.VIII place them among the Midwest's most uncompromising acts.
Seattle's Cofgod blend doom, gothic metal, and stoner metal into heavy, atmospheric journeys that balance introspection with crushing weight, draped in the grey Pacific Northwest gloom.
Doom metal act from Lisbon, formed in 2018. Cold and Grey crafts slow, sorrowful doom reflecting the moodier side of the Atlantic capital.
Durham, North Carolina's Cold Communion pair death metal aggression with doom metal's slower, grief-laden tempos, crafting music that is as emotionally desolate as it is physically crushing.
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