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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Portland doom and post-metal band building vast, slow-burn soundscapes from heavy, resonant foundations. Creaturess draws on the Pacific Northwest's atmospheric heaviness to craft music that breathes and suffocates in equal measure.
Eugene, Oregon stoner and doom metal band rolling through hazy, fuzz-drenched riffs at the unhurried pace the genre demands. Creep Creep Janga leans into the Pacific Northwest's psychedelic doom tradition with loose-limbed heaviness.
Death-doom metal band from Lyon, France, active since 2004. With two decades of activity, Crepuscule merge twilight atmospheres with death-doom weight from France's second city.
Progressive doom-heavy metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, formed in 2018. They blend the crushing weight of doom with progressive complexity and classic heavy metal power.
Houston's Crevasse dive into the slow, psychedelic depths of stoner and doom metal with a warmth and heaviness shaped by the Texas heat. Their fuzz-heavy riffs crawl and expand with the patience of the Gulf Coast underground.
Portland, Oregon's Crimson Altar deal in traditional doom metal with a slow, crushing devotion to the genre's foundational heaviness. Their music evokes the Pacific Northwest's gray skies and introspective weight.
Bentonville, Arkansas doom metal outfit conjuring slow, heavy dirges steeped in gothic atmosphere and crushing low-end weight. Their sound evokes crumbling stone and candlelit dread.
Doom and heavy metal band from Spain, emerging in 2025. They blend the crushing weight of doom with classic heavy metal hooks.
Sacramento doom and stoner metal duo immersed in thick, hazy riffs and slow-burning grooves that pull listeners deep into a hypnotic, smoke-filled sonic fog.
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