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AMENRA "Vanuytsel 7"" (2021)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Doom metal band from Kulmbach in Upper Franconia, Germany, formed in 2015. They craft slow, crushing doom from the Bavarian brewing heartland.
North Little Rock, AR doom and stoner metal band that devours everything in its path at a slow, unstoppable tempo. Their Arkansas-forged heaviness is deliberate, fuzz-laden, and utterly consuming.
Richmond, Virginia's Cough are one of the defining names in American doom and sludge metal, known for suffocating low-tuned riffs and punishing tempos. Their albums feel like descending into a tar pit — slow, dark, and inescapable.
Doom and heavy metal band from Dublin, active since 2009. Council of Tanith delivers crushing, occult-tinged doom with a classic heavy metal foundation.
Doom and heavy metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2014. They craft absurdist doom with classic heavy metal hooks from the Finnish capital.
Out of Kinder, Louisiana, Count Szar lay down oppressive walls of drone and doom metal, favoring ritual repetition and maximum low-end density. Their music feels rooted in the bayou's sense of isolation and slow-moving dread.
Jacksonville doom/sludge duo Count the Dead play with the kind of bleak economy that the genres demand — slow riffs, heavy hearts, no excess. Their Florida roots add a sun-bleached desolation to the characteristic sludge murk.
Symphonic black-doom metal band from England, formed in 2022. They weave symphonic grandeur through darkened doom-black metal.
Death-doom-industrial act from Jönköping in Småland, formed in 2018. Counterblast merges multiple extreme subgenres from the Småland highlands.
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