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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Doom-sludge-stoner act from Barcelos in northern Portugal, formed in 2025. Caos Ritual channels heavy, ritualistic riffs from the Minho region.
Progressive and doom metal act from the Danube city of Smederevo formed in 2017, merging the structural ambition of progressive metal with doom's crushing weight. Their sound balances cerebral complexity with the slow-burning power of heavy riffs.
Virginia doom metal outfit trudging through slow, heavy territory since the late 1990s, carrying on the tradition of funeral-paced riffing and desolate atmospherics.
New Orleans doom and stoner metal outfit active from 2017 before splitting up, drawing from the Crescent City's deep well of heavy, swampy riff traditions.
Doom and drone metal project from Frankfurt, Germany, formed in 2014. They craft massive, slow-moving walls of sound that explore the heaviest extremes of low-tempo metal.
Doom metal band from Dresden, Germany, formed in 2018. They craft slow, heavy compositions steeped in melancholy and oppressive atmosphere from the Saxon capital.
Doom and stoner metal band from the Banbury/Bicester area of Oxfordshire, England, active since 2011. They deliver heavy, fuzz-laden doom-stoner from the English countryside.
Tulsa, Oklahoma stoner/doom metal outfit that emerged in 2024, contributing the track Your Sounds to the Oklahoma-themed compilation Trip to Oklahoma.
Doom metal band from Bordeaux, France, formed in 2017. They craft slow, crushing doom from the Aquitaine capital.
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