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Death-doom metal band from Gottingen, Germany. They merge the oppressive weight of doom with death metal aggression from the Lower Saxon university city.
Houston's Collapsed Mainframe is a genre-agnostic extremity project drawing from black metal, death metal, doom, and grindcore simultaneously — a chaotic, sprawling sound that fits neatly into Houston's notoriously eclectic underground.
Hailing from Kalispell, Montana — one of the more isolated metal scenes in the country — Collapsed Vein pursues the slow, suffocating convergence of death doom, where glacial tempos and crushing low-end define every movement.
Tempe, Arizona's Collapsian merges sludge metal's toxic weight with doom's deliberate pace, a desert-baked heaviness that trades the genre's usual damp griminess for something sun-dried and abrasive.
Doom-sludge act from Bologna, formed in 2020. Collars layers crushing, low-end heaviness over plodding sludge tempos from Emilia-Romagna.
Gothic progressive doom act from Sovetskaya Gavan on Russia's Pacific coast, formed in 2019. Collider merges dark atmospherics with progressive complexity from one of the Far East's most remote port cities.
Death-doom and gothic metal band from Ostrava, Czech Republic, formed in 2014. They layer melancholic gothic atmospheres over crushing death-doom foundations, creating a dark and emotionally resonant sound.
Funeral doom metal band from Riihimaki, Finland, formed in 2015. They craft glacially slow, monumental doom steeped in Finnish darkness and despair.
Gainesville's Colossus wade through swamps of doom and sludge, wringing slow, heavy misery from every note. Their riffs lumber with the weight of oppressive Southern heat.
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