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Long Island husband-and-wife duo Cult of Herodias craft deeply immersive funeral doom anchored by Kristina Rocco's sweeping classical vocals and suffocating, slow-motion arrangements. Active since 2012, the Holbrook outfit fuses experimental doom with a liturgical atmosphere that makes each release feel like a prolonged, mournful ceremony.
Baltimore's Cult of Leviathan blend progressive ambition into a death/doom core, sprawling across tempos and textures without losing the suffocating weight that defines the genre. The Maryland band operates as an independent act, favoring labyrinthine song structures that reward patient listeners.
Kansas City's Cult of Orion occupy the crushing space where death metal, doom, and sludge converge, leaning into slow, monstrous riffs weighted with dread. The Missouri band works in the tradition of death/doom that prizes atmosphere and oppressive heaviness over technical display.
Death-doom metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, formed in 2018. They merge the crushing weight of doom with death metal aggression and occult themes.
Doom metal band from Zele, Belgium, formed in 2018, composed of experienced musicians from various backgrounds. Their prophetic vision encompasses the destruction of our planet and humanity's takeoff into the cold blackness of space, expressed across albums like 'Tales of the Sacrosanct Man.'
Cincinnati's Cult of Sorrow take early heavy metal's most primal impulses and run them through a lens of occult doom, drawing on traditional witchcraft imagery while keeping the riffs massive and the atmosphere brooding. Their 2019 album Invocation of the Lucifer is their most complete statement, framing the horned god as a force of nature rather than a figure of evil.
San Francisco's Cult of the Cosmic Bong are a fully instrumental doom trio who trade in psychedelic weight, wringing hypnotic, heavy riffs from guitar, bass, and drums without ever reaching for a vocal hook. Their 2025 album The Relentless Engine of Creation distills their approach to creative, immersive, riff-centric music.
Doom metal act from Alingsås in western Sweden, active since 2013. Cult of the Headless Witch crafts occult-themed doom from the Västergötland countryside.
Black-death-doom metal band from Scotland, emerging in 2026. They blend three extreme metal genres into a dark, wounding assault.
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