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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Doom-sludge-stoner act from Russia, formed in 2024. Call of Wrath delivers heavy, slow-burning riffs.
Allentown, Pennsylvania's Call Off Dead traffic in doom and sludge metal, stacking slow, oppressive riffs into a dense wall of sound since 2019.
Death-doom metal band from Leipzig, Germany, originally formed in Chemnitz in 2008. Across releases from Doomsday through 2024's split with Urza, Calliophis craft intense atmospheres where epic melodies collide with dark soundscapes and crushing heaviness.
Callix Aureus is a one-person depressive black and doom metal project from Brasília, Brazil, created by musician Maycon Moura. The project blends atmospheric black metal with depressive suicidal black metal (DSBM) and doom, creating mournful, snow-buried soundscapes with lacerated vocals. Releases include “Pale Suicide (DSBM)” (2025), “Mechanical Respiration,” “Glass Tears,” “Chronica Funesta,” and “Kyrie Dolor.”
Calvário is a heavy/doom metal band from Carapicuíba, São Paulo, Brazil, originally formed in 1990 under the name Calvary. The band holds the distinction of being the first Brazilian Christian metal act to release a full-length album, and has been active across several periods since their founding, currently signed to Blood & Iron Records. They were featured in the Brazilian metal fanzine U’loco as early as 1991, cementing their place as pioneers of Christian heavy metal in Brazil.
Chicago instrumental stoner/doom duo Camel Heavy let their riffs do the talking, crafting wordless, hypnotic heaviness within the fuzzed-out tradition since 2015.
Experimental doom and stoner metal band from Huddersfield, England, active since 2002. With over two decades of activity, Camel of Doom push doom metal boundaries through avant-garde approaches.
Doom, heavy, and thrash metal band from Halberstadt, Germany, formed in 2020. They blend the crushing weight of doom with thrash metal's speed and traditional heavy metal's hooks.
Doom and stoner metal band from the Alpine foothills of San Giovanni Bianco in Bergamo province, formed in 2021. Cancervo conjures heavy, mountainous riffs from the Brembana Valley.
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