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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Sludge/drone/doom metal band from Goettingen, Germany, active since 2010. Their monolithic sound combines the most extreme elements of sludge, drone, and doom into earth-shaking, glacially paced compositions with releases including a split with Rule of Coss.
Chico, California's Hearses combine drone, sludge, and doom into a crushing slow-motion procession built from sustained dissonance and mountainous low-end pressure. Since 2021 they've inhabited the unhurried, suffocating space where all three genres converge.
Blackened doom/sludge metal act from Schleswig, Germany, formed in 2024. Named after the Norse frost giant's heart, they forge crushing, atmosphere-laden metal that evokes the frozen landscapes of Nordic mythology.
Heartache is a doom/death metal band from Salsk, Russia, formed in 2010. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Blackened drone/doom metal band from Aalborg, Denmark, active since 2016. Their suffocating blend of blackened atmosphere, droning textures, and doom weight creates an oppressive sonic landscape.
South Carolina's Heathen Bastard have been brewing a potent mix of stoner, sludge, and doom out of Florence since 2013 — grimy, low-slung music with Southern humidity baked into every riff. They occupy the nastier, swampier end of the American heavy underground.
Heathen Rites is a doom metal act from Örebro, Sweden, active since 2021 and channeling monolithic heaviness through its doom metal framework. The project delivers oppressive, glacially paced compositions.
California's Heathendom formed in 2025 as a symphonic black metal project, layering orchestral grandeur over cold, dissonant riffing in the tradition of the genre's most theatrical practitioners. They're among the newest acts in the domestic symphonic black metal scene, arriving with fully formed ambition.
Albuquerque's Heave combine the desert-baked slowness of stoner metal with the gravitational weight of doom, producing music that feels shaped by New Mexico's vast, arid landscape. Since 2013, they've been one of the Southwest's most reliable purveyors of low-tuned, heavy-lidded heaviness.
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