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Evidence (2023)
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Part of Ukraine's fierce and unyielding metal community, this act channels black metal, death metal, and doom metal with a focus on icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Formed in 2010, based in Kyiv, their sound honors the second wave while forging its own path.
Milwaukee heavy/doom metal band summoning the Rust Belt's industrial weight through slow, deliberate riffing and traditional doom's reverence for the riff above all else since 2018. Wisconsin's post-industrial gloom rendered in downtuned steel.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania technical death metal act whose German-inflected name — meaning endless — matches the complexity they've been threading into relentless compositions since 2013. Their approach prioritizes precision and density over accessibility.
The Russian city of Moscow serves as headquarters for this doom metal, progressive metal, and sludge metal operation, whose arsenal includes Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Austrian doom/death metal project from Upper Austria forging epic, crushing compositions since 2022, blending funeral-paced doom with death metal ferocity. Their catalog includes a collaboration with Daniel Droste of AHAB, underscoring their deep roots in the international doom scene.
Death/doom metal act from Opwijk, Belgium, merging the crushing slowness of doom with death metal's guttural ferocity since 2010. Their long-running commitment to the genre reflects deep roots in Belgium's extreme metal underground.
Melodic death/doom metal band from Lisbon, Portugal launched in 2025. Their name — referencing the ancient Lusitanian deity Endovelicus — roots their sound in Iberian pre-Roman mythology.
Straddling the line between doom metal and stoner metal, this Russian actfrom Saint Petersburg fuses wah-soaked leads and bass-heavy grooves in the tradition of Kyuss and Sleep into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2012, and their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
Burlington, Wisconsin death/doom newcomers formed in 2026 who approach the subgenre with the patient, crushing heaviness that defines acts like Autopsy and Paradise Lost. Even in their earliest days, the weight is undeniable.
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