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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Madison, Wisconsin trio Cthonian Lich crawl through a swampy fusion of doom, sludge, and stoner metal, conjuring psychedelic dread from the Midwest. Their riffs move like shifting tectonic plates — slow, heavy, and unstoppable.
Black-doom-progressive-stoner act from Rotterdam, formed in 2019. Cthuluminati merges Lovecraftian cosmic horror with genre-defying metal that spans doom, black, progressive, and stoner traditions.
Black-doom-sludge metal band from Lappeenranta, Finland, emerging in 2025. They merge black metal darkness with doom-sludge weight from the Finnish-Russian borderlands.
Doom and sludge metal band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2009. They deliver thick, oppressive doom-sludge from the Catalan capital.
Prolific one-man project with over fifteen full-lengths since 2013. Unpredictable, genre-bending compositions blending doom, prog, and symphonic elements.
Portland, Oregon stoner and doom metal outfit Cull move at a heavy, methodical pace, building oppressive walls of fuzz that carry the Pacific Northwest's heavy tradition. Their music is slow, deliberate, and saturated with low-end weight.
Phoenix, Arizona doom/sludge outfit Culldron cook up thick, sweltering metal that mirrors the scorching heat of the Sonoran Desert. Their heavy, low-tuned sound drags and churns with relentless desert oppressiveness.
Black-death-doom metal band from London, formed in 2020. They channel cult-like darkness through a crushing fusion of three extreme genres.
Gothic death-doom act from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2021. Cult of Decay merges dark atmospherics with crushing doom and death metal.
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