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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Monolith of Inhumanity (2012)
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Death-doom-sludge metal band from Marburg, Germany, formed in 2023. They layer crushing doom and sludge weight with death metal aggression from the Hessian university city.
Symphonic blackened death-doom act from Moscow, active since 2004. Condemned Cell has spent two decades crafting dark, multi-layered extreme metal from the Russian capital.
Death-doom act from Bodegraven, South Holland, active since 2013. Condolence merges mournful doom with crushing death metal from the Dutch lowlands.
Raleigh doom metal band with a cult following built on their unconventional rhythmic approach and vocalist Sel Balamir's striking high-register delivery. Their 1992 debut *Condemned* remains one of the most distinctive American doom records of its era.
Death-doom act from the Netherlands, formed in 2014. Confrontation delivers heavy, HM-2-driven death-doom in the Swedish tradition.
Doom and stoner metal band from Rostock, Germany, formed in 2016. They deliver crushing, fuzz-drenched doom from the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Portland, Maine doom/sludge duo known for mammoth low-tuned riffs and crushing, suffocating heaviness rooted in the cold Maine wilderness. Their music evokes the weight and desolation of the New England landscape.
Indianapolis sludge metal band building walls of crushing, feedback-drenched sound in the Midwestern underground. Their slow, punishing riffs and bleak atmosphere carry the weight of the genre's heaviest practitioners.
Los Angeles's Conqueror Worm wade through death doom and crushing sludge, layering suffocating low-end heaviness with the kind of desolate atmosphere that weighs down on the listener like a collapsing structure.
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