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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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Minneapolis doom/drone/sludge band Crone build extended, suffocating soundscapes from the ground up, embracing the glacial pacing and tonal density of the heaviest strains of underground metal.
Manning, South Carolina death/doom/sludge outfit Crone Bog drag listeners through mire and rot, stacking funereal slow riffs with the decomposing murk of old-school death metal.
Fall River, Massachusetts black/doom/heavy metal act Cross Inversion draw on the bleak industrial heritage of their former mill city, crafting dark and oppressive metal rooted in the New England underground.
Doom metal band from Detmold in the Teutoburg Forest, Germany, formed in 2015. They craft slow, crushing doom steeped in oppressive atmosphere.
Post-rock, sludge, and doom metal band from Morlanwelz, Belgium, formed in 2020. They weave expansive post-rock dynamics with the crushing heaviness of sludge and doom, creating a cinematic and emotionally charged sound.
Doom and heavy metal project from Poland, formed in 2021. CrossRoad crafts slow, heavy riffs with a traditional metal foundation.
Gothic doom act from Sarpsborg, southeastern Norway, active since 2002. Crowhead has spent over two decades crafting melancholic, atmospheric metal bridging gothic and doom traditions.
Melodic death-doom act from Kisvárda in northeastern Hungary, active since 2013. Crowhill Tales blends sorrowful melodies with crushing doom and death metal weight.
Memphis' Crowlord plants doom and sludge metal deep in Tennessee soil, drawing from both traditions to deliver slow, crushing music that carries the weight of the Delta. Their sound is as heavy as the city's history.
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