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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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Halo (2017)
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When Echoes of Yul emerged in 2009 from Opole, they brought with them a sound rooted in doom metal, drone metal, and post-metal — all funeral-paced heaviness dripping with existential dread. Their compositions unfold like tectonic shifts — slow, inevitable, devastating.
Progressive doom metal and post-rock act from Basel, Switzerland, blending the deliberate heaviness of doom with the textural dynamics of post-rock since 2019. Their approach creates expansive, atmospheric compositions that traverse the boundary between crushing weight and ethereal beauty.
Black, death, doom, and gothic metal band from Potenza, Italy active since 2007. They deliver a rich, multi-genre extreme metal sound from the Basilicata region.
Massive Epic Crust / Doom / Thrash Metal out of Texas.
Death/doom/black metal act from Rivas-Vaciamadrid near Madrid, Spain, weaving together three of extreme metal's darkest threads since 2007. Their skin-condition name captures the raw, uncomfortable intensity of their genre-crossing extremity.
On the warpath since 2019, this Glasgow Doom Metal and Post-Metal outfit delivers tectonic grooves and sorrowful melodic passages. Their place within the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Kharkiv-based doom metal and gothic metal act, active since 2012 delivering Type O Negative-school brooding grandeur with genuine emotional weight. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most resilient metal scenes, uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Chicago's Edgar Allan Ectoplasm have one of heavy music's better names, and they back it up with a lurching, fog-thick blend of doom, stoner, and sludge metal that evokes humid dread — active since 2013.
Monolithic Heavy / Doom Metal from Dallas.
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