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Swiss atmospheric doom and post-metal trio from Bern, whose hypnotic, loop-based compositions oscillate between velvet darkness and flaring bursts of high energy. Their acclaimed albums "Maenad" and "Vexier" have been described as doomgaze, evoking shamanic rituals imbued with psychedelic colors across expansive, carefully crafted compositions.
Out of Marfa, Texas — a remote high-desert art town as far from a thriving metal scene as you can get — E.E.O.G. trades on slow, sun-cooked doom and stoner riffs that feel as wide and empty as the Chihuahuan landscape outside their door.
One of the more singular acts in American heavy music, Eagle Twin emerged from Salt Lake City in 2009 to build an uncompromising wall of drone-heavy sludge doom, where riffs don't so much crush as they slowly collapse under their own gravity.
Portland's Ealdath has been threading doom and death metal together since 2014, drawing on the Northwest's overcast atmosphere to give their sound a particularly cold and funereal weight.
Formed in Los Angeles in 2020, Early Moods arrived in the middle of a doom revival and immediately distinguished themselves with a hazy, vintage-leaning sound that owes as much to '70s hard rock as it does to contemporary doom.
The Olympia originals. Earth essentially invented drone doom in the early 1990s, and Dylan Carlson's project has never stopped pushing — from the sub-bass cathedral of their early work to the spaced-out psychedelic territory they've since occupied.
Greeley, Colorado's Earth Burnt Black takes the patient structures of doom and runs them through a progressive filter, producing something more complex and winding than either genre demands on its own — active since 2011.
Montijo's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this doom metal unit is among them — wielding Sabbathian worship filtered through decades of underground evolution. Patience is rewarded with crushing, cathartic payoffs.
Doom metal and hard rock act from the Nuremberg/Bamberg area of Bavaria, Germany, crafting heavy, blues-infused compositions since 2005. Their two-decade career reflects an enduring dedication to the slow-burning power of doom-laden hard rock.
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