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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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On the warpath since 2013, this London Doom Metal and Stoner Metal outfit delivers fuzz-drenched riffs and hypnotic, groove-laden repetition. Their place within the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Elephantus is a stoner/doom duo from Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil, formed in 2020 by vocalist and guitarist Marcelo Maus and drummer Andrei Mamede. The band fuses heavy riffing with psychedelic and Brazilian northeastern folk influences, releasing their self-titled debut EP through Electric Funeral Records in June 2020 and the full-length Solstício in 2025.
A product of Italy's deep-rooted extreme metal underground, this Palermo-based doom metal and stoner metal act channels desert-baked tonality and psychedelic haze over lumbering rhythms. Active since 2012, their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Rochester, New York's Elfspell conjure epic doom and traditional heavy metal with a mythological scale, their sound since 2015 built on massive clean vocals, crushing riffs, and a commitment to the genre's most grandiose traditions.
Black metal, doom, and sludge band from Reykjavik, Iceland formed in 2021. They channel the harsh volcanic landscapes through extreme metal.
Straddling the line between doom metal and gothic metal, this Dutch actfrom Zoetermeer fuses Type O Negative-school brooding grandeur with genuine emotional weight into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2019, and their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
Doom/post-metal act from Bernried in Bavaria, Germany, crafting heavy, atmospheric compositions since 2020. Their approach merges the crushing deliberation of doom metal with the expansive, textural dynamics of post-metal.
Straddling the line between doom metal and drone metal, this Latvian act fuses glacial, punishment-dealing grooves wallowing in distortion into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2021, and uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Devastating Progressive / Doom / Death Metal from Dallas.
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