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AMENRA "Vanuytsel 7"" (2021)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Brooklyn's Empire of Dust arrived in 2023 blending melodic thrash aggression with metalcore structure, channeling New York City's restless energy into a sound that moves between technical riffing and muscular breakdown momentum.
Minneapolis outfit Empires have been dragging doom and sludge through post-metal's murky corridors since 2008, building suffocating walls of slow-motion riff work layered with atmospheric texture.
Atlanta's Empty Black wallow in the Southern sludge tradition — stoner-thick riffs baked in tar and doom, the kind of slow-burn heaviness the city's heavy underground has perfected.
Netherlands — doom metal and gothic metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2025, they deal in beauty-and-the-beast vocal contrasts over darkly atmospheric arrangements. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Doom and sludge metal band from Oulu in northern Finland, formed in 2017. They channel crushing heaviness from Finland's far north.
A product of Hungary's Central European metal outpost, this Esztergom-based death metal and doom metal act channels percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Active since 2019, low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
Pioneering German romantic dark metal project from Hendungen, founded in 1996 as the first band signed to Prophecy Productions. Led by Markus Stock, Empyrium's extensive catalog from "A Wintersunset" through "Uber den Sternen" set the standard for lyrical, symphonic folk/doom metal blended with neofolk elements.
En la Niebla is a stoner/doom metal power trio from Córdoba province, Argentina, formed in 2021 by guitarist and vocalist Mariano Sacchi, bassist Matias Ghirlanda, and drummer Elo Ciaccio. The band released their debut album, El Limbo de los Callados, on December 13, 2022, a set of fuzz-heavy, low-tuned tracks sung in Spanish with occult and esoteric themes.
Heavy/doom metal act from Ugao-Miraballes in the Basque Country, Spain, forging crushing heaviness since 2020. Their Basque-language name reflects the deep cultural roots that inform their approach to doom-infused metal.
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