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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Philadelphia's Crypt Sermon are among the most celebrated traditional doom acts in the American underground, crafting slow, majestic songs steeped in early Black Sabbath and Candlemass worship. Their music carries genuine weight and solemnity, built on epic song structures and powerful clean vocals.
Doom and stoner metal band from Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2019. They deliver thick, occult-tinged doom with fuzz-drenched stoner grooves.
Death/doom metal band from Klagenfurt, Austria, formed in 2021, featuring Benjamin Helfer on guitar and vocals alongside Daniel Schober, Simon Matweber, and David Matweber. Their 2024 self-titled debut EP spans funeral doom, death metal, and sludge with a 'Stay Death' ethos.
Depressive black-doom metal band from France, formed in 2021. They craft bleak, crushing metal that merges depressive black metal with doom weight.
Death-doom metal band from Wolfsburg, Germany, active since 2013. They craft putrid, filthy death-doom that crawls through murky sonic depths.
Portland, Oregon's Cryptic Edifice specialize in doom metal with a monolithic, introspective quality that suits the Pacific Northwest's grey, rain-soaked atmosphere. Their music is slow and heavy in the best possible way.
Suffocating Doom Metal, Ambient out of Texas.
Black-doom-thrash metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2024. They blend the darkness of black metal with doom weight and thrash aggression from the Hanseatic port city.
Instrumental doom and psychedelic metal band from San Diego formed around 2012, building slow, heavy soundscapes with a largely wordless approach to the genre. Their debut release Razorleaf (2014) captured the band's hazy, riff-driven sound recorded at The Continental Garage in Escondido.
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