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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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The Russian city of Tikhvin serves as headquarters for this black metal and doom metal operation, whose arsenal includes corrosive riffing and misanthropic atmosphere. Frostbitten riffing and anti-cosmic lyrical themes define their output.
Baltimore's Ethur cultivate a heavy, narcotic blend of stoner and doom metal since 2016, leaning into the city's blue-collar grit to produce slow-burning, fuzz-saturated riffs that grind the listener into submission. Their music smells of motor oil and incense.
Raleigh's Etiolated have been draining the color from death metal since 2015, infusing it with the slow grief of doom to produce a death-doom sound that is genuinely desolate. Named for the pale withering of plants denied light, the band lives up to their moniker.
Doom and drone metal project from Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France formed in 2023. They craft massive, slow-burning heaviness from southwestern France.
Death metal, doom, and grindcore band from Budapest, Hungary launched in 2024. They bring a diverse extreme metal assault from the Hungarian capital.
Edinburgh-based doom metal act, active since 2023 delivering Sabbathian worship filtered through decades of underground evolution. Rooted in Britain's endlessly regenerating metal lineage, patience is rewarded with crushing, cathartic payoffs.
Louisville's Eulogy in Blood stir death, doom, and sludge metal into a suffocating funeral procession since 2019, channeling the Ohio River city's blue-collar heaviness into slow-motion devastation. Their music moves like flood water — methodical, unstoppable, and utterly consuming.
Doom metal and punk hybrid from Monchengladbach, Germany, merging the crushing weight of doom with punk's raw energy since 2018. Their unusual genre combination creates a distinctive sound that draws from both extremes.
Emerging from Eugene, Oregon in 2025, Eutrophic are one of the newest voices in the Pacific Northwest's dense and suffocating heavy music scene. Their blend of sludge, drone, and doom metal draws on the region's tradition of crushing slowness, layering toxic drone frequencies over agonizing tempos.
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