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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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New Orleans sludge and doom act Haarp draws heavily from the murk and misery of their city's storied extreme metal tradition. Since regrouping in 2014, they've built a reputation on crushing low-end riffs and an oppressive, swamp-soaked heaviness.
From South Wales in United Kingdom, this stoner/doom metal act brings relentless intensity since 2013. Their work explores the genre's darkest corners through immense heaviness.
Finnish power metal project emerging in 2023. Their monstrous name matches larger-than-life compositions channeling the epic traditions of European power metal through a Finnish lens.
Haddock is a doom/stoner metal band from Karlstad, Sweden, active since 2013 and delivering crushing, fuzz-laden heaviness where doom's oppressive weight meets stoner metal's hazy grooves. The project channels low-end power and psychedelic atmosphere.
Portland, Oregon's Hadean works in the slow, oppressive territory between doom and heavy metal, their sound as grey and overcast as the Pacific Northwest sky above their city. Formed in 2014, they lean into the weight.
Dark heavy/doom metal emanating from London, active since 2023 within United Kingdom's metal scene. Classic metal craftsmanship and energetic delivery define their approach.
A relentless doom/post-metal/rock entity from France, active since 2020. Monolithic compositions and oppressive atmospheres define their crushing sound.
Emerging from Stockholm's underground, this progressive death/doom metal act has been forging devastating sonic fury since 2015. Rooted in old-school traditions, their compositions deliver unrelenting heaviness.
Atmospheric Doom/Death Metal project from Netherlands, forging savage compositions since 2023. Their sound channels the genre's most crushing impulses through thunderous riffs.
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