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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Chicago band combining death metal's aggression with doom's suffocating slow tempos, crafting crushing, sepulchral compositions that dwell on weight and dread.
Doom metal band from Keuruu, Finland, active since 2010. They craft slow, heavy doom steeped in Finnish melancholy from the central lake region.
Cassius King traffic in slow, hazy heaviness out of Ramsey, NJ, combining doom's funeral weight with stoner rock's warm fuzz for a sound built on thick riffs and deliberate, oppressive pacing.
Doom metal band from Huittinen, Finland, formed in 2021. They craft crushing, monolithic doom from the Finnish Satakunta region.
San Francisco's Castle deal in heavy, riff-forward doom with a traditional heavy metal backbone, favoring massive guitar tones and a bluesy, earth-shaking heaviness over experimental detours.
Minneapolis's Castle combine doom's slow, ritualistic tempos with sludge metal's distorted, feedback-laden aggression, crafting a sound that lurches forward under the weight of its own oppressive heaviness.
Brooklyn's Castle Rat play heavy, atmospheric doom with a dark, occult-tinged aesthetic, built around droning guitar work and vocals that carry a gothic, sepulchral weight.
Doom and sludge metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2020. They deliver thick, oppressive heaviness from the Finnish capital.
Hayward, California funeral doom solo project delivering crushingly slow, organ-tinged dirges in the Lovecraftian tradition, with a vicious yet mournful sonic weight.
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