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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 metal band from Cannes on the French Riviera, formed in 2023. They deliver thick, cannabis-tinged doom-sludge from the glamorous Cote d'Azur.
San Antonio doom and stoner metal band built on crushing, fuzz-soaked riffs and a deliberate slow-burn approach. Cursus navigates desert-heavy sonic territory with the patient, enveloping weight of Texas stone and heat.
Doom metal band from Hesse, Germany, active since 1991. With over three decades of history, Curven are among the most enduring doom acts in Germany.
Kingston, New Hampshire band fusing black metal coldness with the lumbering weight of doom, crafting bleak and heavy soundscapes. Cuspian brings a rural New England grimness to music built on extremity and atmosphere.
Youngstown, Ohio doom and stoner metal band spelling out heaviness in a deliberately obscured name as raw and slow as their riffs. CVTTVNMVVTH drags through cavernous, fuzz-drenched dirges from the Rust Belt underground.
Death-doom-sludge act from Reykjavík, active since 2017. CXVIII delivers crushing, slow-burning heaviness that draws on Iceland's tradition of atmospheric extreme metal.
Columbia, Missouri band blending doom metal's lumbering weight, groove metal's mid-tempo punch, and classic heavy metal riffing. Cyanigma crafts a heavy, rolling sound rooted in the riff-first traditions of American metal.
Doom-heavy-thrash act from Porto, active since 2016. Cycles blends crushing doom with heavy and thrash metal elements from northern Portugal.
Seattle doom, post-metal, and sludge metal band crafting expansive, heavy soundscapes rooted in desolation and slow-building tension. Cycles of the Damned draws from the Pacific Northwest's introspective and heavy musical heritage.
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