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Featured Album
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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Doom and gothic metal band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2024. They weave melancholic gothic atmospheres over crushing doom metal foundations.
Queens, New York black and doom metal act weaving frigid, dissonant riffs together with suffocating, slow-moving passages in a sound that's as bleak as it is hypnotically heavy.
Doom and gothic metal band originally from Hamburg, now based in Freiburg, Germany, active since 2012. They craft melancholic, atmospheric doom infused with dark gothic beauty.
Doom and sludge metal band from Oxford, England, formed in 2016. They deliver crushing doom-sludge from the historic university city.
Crushing Progressive Doom Metal from Houston.
Fresno doom and sludge metal band dredging up slow, corrosive heaviness from California's Central Valley underground — suffocating riffs, tortured vocals, and a deliberately punishing pace.
Doom metal act from Ravenna, formed in 2021. Cripta Blue — blending crypt imagery with blue melancholy — crafts slow, sorrowful doom from Emilia-Romagna.
Los Angeles-based Crom cast an unusually wide net across doom, sludge, grind, power, and thrash, resulting in a chaotic and unpredictable strain of heavy music from the SoCal underground.
Raleigh doom/sludge duo CroMagnon wield low-tuned, prehistoric heaviness — primitive in tone but deliberate in execution, drawing on the slow-burn intensity of the Southern metal underground.
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