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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Oakland's Hellbeard have been mining the Oakland sludge tradition since 2010, piling down-tuned misery onto doom's already crushing foundation. Their sound carries the Bay Area's industrial grit embedded in every slow, punishing riff.
Scorching black/doom metal project from Helsinki, carving a path through Finland's underground since 2023. Steeped in second-wave tradition, their work explores misanthropy and desolation.
Helldog is a stoner/doom/folk metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, active since 2025 and weaving traditional folk melodies and instrumentation into heavy metal. The project bridges ancient cultural heritage with modern metal power.
An uncompromising doom metal project from Vilnius, active since 2014. Their work explores the genre's darkest corners through immense heaviness.
Hellige is a black/sludge/doom metal project from Morón, Buenos Aires, that began as raw black metal recordings before evolving into a heavier, more atmospheric sound. Their 2021 album "Camino de agua", released through Dying Sun Records and mixed and mastered by Facundo Brinville, is the product of material written and recorded between 2014 and 2021.
Hellish Form push doom to its most suffocating extreme, folding sludge's abrasive texture into funeral doom's glacial pace and near-unbearable weight. Formed in 2020, they embrace desolation as an art form — slow, suffocating, and strangely beautiful.
Hellmask operates in the furthest reaches of funeral doom and ambient metal, crafting recordings since 2017 that feel less like songs and more like long descents into irreversible darkness. Atmosphere is the entire purpose here, and they wield it with unsettling mastery.
Doom/stoner metal band from Winterthur, Switzerland, formed in 2014, self-described as lifting classic stoner to the heavy max with a 'Fuzz-a-thonic grunt.' This five-piece steamroller delivers crushing, fuzz-drenched stoner doom from the Swiss mountain foothills.
Heavy groove metal outfit from Aberdeen in northeast Scotland, active since 2014. Their Alaskan-inspired name adds frontier mystique to groovy, riff-driven compositions from the Granite City.
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