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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Madrid-based speed metal outfit active since 2013, one of the Spanish capital's most enduring metal acts. Their wall-like name matches a sound built on solid foundations of classic speed and heavy metal.
Funeral doom/black metal project from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2019. Named after the ancient Greek philosopher of pessimism, they create devastatingly slow, misanthropic music that merges funeral doom's crushing weight with black metal's cold despair.
Black/doom metal band from Aurich, Germany, active since 2012. Their oppressive sound merges the cosmic darkness of black metal with the crushing weight of doom from the flatlands of East Frisia.
Stoner/doom metal band from Elche, Spain, active since 2013. Named after the Norse goddess of the underworld, they deliver thick, fuzz-laden stoner doom from the palm-lined city of Alicante.
An established sludge/doom metal voice from Saint Petersburg, contributing to Russia's underground since 2018. Slow, deliberate riffing and suffocating atmospheres form the foundation of their craft.
Atmospheric Doom Metal/Rock force from Belluno, relentless and relentless since 2018. Massive, slow-building riffs and cavernous atmospheres define their doom approach.
Stoner/doom metal band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2018. Their thick, fuzzy riffs and hypnotic grooves deliver the immersive weight of stoner doom from Lower Saxony's capital.
Burlington, Vermont's Hellascope deals in the slow, thick intoxication of stoner-doom, letting riffs unfurl with deliberate weight under a haze of fuzz and feedback. Since 2017 they have operated at the intersection of heaviness and hypnosis.
Hellavator is a stoner/doom metal band from Fauske, Norway, active since 2018 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.
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