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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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Herbicidal is a stoner/doom metal band from Bristol, United Kingdom, active since 2019 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.
Herds is a black/death/doom metal band from Yorkshire, England, formed in 2009. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
HereLiesIdio is a black/doom metal act from United Kingdom, active since 2025 and merging black metal's cold intensity with doom's suffocating weight. The project inhabits the darkest intersection of both genres.
An established stoner/sludge/doom metal voice from Helsinki, contributing to Finland's underground since 2008. Slow, deliberate riffing and suffocating atmospheres form the foundation of their craft.
An established heavy/doom metal/rock voice from Ratkovo, contributing to Serbia's underground since 2015. Their compositions celebrate the timeless formula of powerful riffs and soaring melodies.
Heretic Ritual is a doom metal act from Alingsås, Sweden, active since 2020 and channeling monolithic heaviness through its doom metal framework. The project delivers oppressive, glacially paced compositions.
Heritage Steel is a doom metal act from Sweden, active since 2020 and channeling monolithic heaviness through its doom metal framework. The project delivers oppressive, glacially paced compositions.
Hermopolis is a psychedelic doom metal act from Poland, active since 2023 and channeling monolithic heaviness through its doom metal framework. The project delivers oppressive, glacially paced compositions.
Hernán D'Ambrosio is a doom metal and acoustic artist from Necochea, Argentina who released the EP "El espíritu del fuego" in April 2022, produced and recorded between 2021 and 2022 with a self-described doom atmosphere and introspective concept. He also plays guitar and vocals in the Necochea sludge/doom band Montibus alongside drummer and multi-instrumentalist Facundo Bávaro.
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