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New Hampshire's Come to Grief are a sludge-doom institution, dragging listeners through the most suffocating depths the genre has to offer. Their slow, mountainous riffs carry the misery of a long New England winter into every note.
Comeculebras is a stoner and doom metal band from San Carlos de Bariloche in Argentina's Patagonia region, formed in 2016. The trio of Emilio Contissa on guitar, Federico Agüero on drums, and Fernando Valeria on bass and vocals released their self-titled debut in 2016 and followed it with Río Rojo in 2017, also contributing to the Doomed & Stoned Latinoamerica Vol. II compilation.
Black-death-doom metal band from Kassel, Germany, formed in 2015. They blend the darkness of black metal with the brutality of death metal and the crushing weight of doom.
Las Vegas post-metal and doom outfit Commonear build expansive, slow-burn soundscapes in the shadow of the Nevada desert. Their music trades the Strip's glitter for bleak, heavy atmosphere.
Doom and heavy metal band from Norwich, England, formed in 2022. They blend the crushing weight of doom with classic heavy metal hooks from the Norfolk capital.
Austin, Texas's Communion inhabit the slowest, heaviest end of doom and drone, letting notes decay into cavernous silence and drone into near-silence before crushing you under their weight. Funeral doom spaciousness and stoner haze combine into something monolithic.
Boston's Company of Strangers blend traditional heavy metal's melodic sensibility with doom metal's weighty gloom, producing a sound that is both hook-laden and heavy. The city's rich metal heritage informs their classic approach.
Legendary doom-sludge-stoner metal band from Liverpool, England, active since 2007. Conan are renowned for their absolutely crushing, caveman-heavy approach to doom-sludge, earning them a devoted international following.
Boston doom outfit Concilium drag listeners through cavernous, slow-motion heaviness, using dense, distorted walls of sound and oppressive tempos to evoke dread and resignation.
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