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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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Long Island, New York death metal and hardcore hybrid that emerged in 2014, blending the brute force of death metal with the urgent, confrontational energy of hardcore.
Knoxville, Tennessee black and funeral doom metal project, layering glacially slow funeral doom atmospherics beneath raw black metal hostility.
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Oakland doom trio known for their crushingly slow tempos and occult-tinged heaviness, drawing on traditional doom and death-doom influences to build dense, hypnotic walls of misery.
Austin outfit combining the slow burn of doom with sludge metal's abrasive grit, channeling the heat and intensity of the Texas underground into bleak, feedback-drenched soundscapes.
Doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2006. With nearly two decades of crushing heaviness, Cardinals Folly are veterans of the Finnish doom underground.
Black-doom metal project from Helsinki, Finland. They merge the bleakness of black metal with the crushing weight of doom.
Death-doom act from Ljubljana, Slovenia, formed in 2020. Carestia — Italian for 'famine' — merges crushing death metal with funereal doom.
Doom-drone-sludge metal band from Bristol, England, active since 2010. They craft massive, slow-moving walls of sound from the West Country's vibrant heavy music scene.
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