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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Doom and heavy metal band from Ostrołęka in northeastern Poland, active since 2014. Catacombat crafts slow, massive riffs with an old-school heavy metal foundation.
Doom and drone metal band from France, formed in 2015. They craft massive, slow-moving walls of sound exploring the heaviest extremes of low-tempo metal.
New Jersey funeral doom solo project of Xathagorra Mlandroth, best known for the landmark 2006 album 'In the Depths of R'lyeh' — an hour-long immersion into Lovecraftian dread built on glacial tempos and cavernous death growls.
Death-doom act from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2022. Catafalque Draped — referencing a funeral drape — delivers funereal extremity from Russia's cultural capital.
Death-doom metal band from the Helsinki/Nummela area, Finland, formed in 2017. They merge the crushing weight of doom with death metal aggression.
Black-death-doom metal band from London, active since 2011. They channel damnation through a crushing fusion of three extreme metal genres.
Catapult-Collision is a young Modesto outfit playing heavy, slow-burning doom metal built on crushing low-tuned riffs and a suffocating sense of dread. Even as a recent formation, their approach reaches back to the genre's foundational bleakness.
Los Angeles avant-doom outfit blending post-rock, sludge metal, and keyboard-driven atmosphere, prioritizing organ and synth over guitars to create a uniquely sorrowful, minimalist doom sound.
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