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Erasy is a sludge/stoner/doom metal band from Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil, drawing inspiration from Black Sabbath and the slow, heavy end of the metal spectrum. The band has released three studio albums — The Valley of Dying Stars (2016), Under the Moonlight (2018), and Some Nice Flowers (2020) — through Dopesmoke Heavy Music Productions, and has performed at regional festivals including the Dopesmoke Festival.
A product of Scandinavia's melodic death metal epicenter, this Gävle-based black metal, doom metal, and viking metal act channels grandiose, saga-inspired compositions with choir-like vocal passages. Active since 2003, the combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Rising from Ogden against the backdrop of Utah's Wasatch Mountains, this atmospheric doom/post-metal band stretches slow, heavy compositions across vast sonic terrain where despair and transcendence coexist.
Doom metal project from Sabadell, Spain launched in 2021, drawing deeply from Tolkien-inspired dark fantasy imagery. Their releases Palantir's Quest and The March of the Undead channel the atmosphere of Mirkwood's fortress through slow, heavy doom.
Sludge/doom metal act from Brunswick, Germany, crafting crushing, slow-burning compositions since 2019. Their hermit-referencing name reflects the isolated, introspective character of their oppressively heavy sound.
Straddling the line between black metal and doom metal, this Latvian actfrom Riga fuses venomous shrieks over walls of distortion into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2019, and the compositions unfold with ritualistic patience and venomous intent.
Atmospheric doom/death metal act from Leipzig, Germany, crafting immersive, emotionally heavy compositions since 2015. Their approach merges the crushing weight of doom/death with atmospheric textures from Saxony's largest city.
Portland, Maine blackened doom metal act Ergi inhabit the bleak coastal winter of New England, drawing the name from Old Norse taboo and channeling that transgressive weight into slow, anguished heaviness.
Chicago doom metal legend Eric Wagner, best known as the voice of Trouble, released solo work that carries all the same plaintive heaviness and spiritual weight he brought to that band's towering catalog.
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