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AMENRA "Vanuytsel 7"" (2021)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Death/doom/thrash metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2020. Their genre-spanning approach merges the crushing weight of doom, the brutality of death metal, and the speed of thrash.
Based in Clermont-Ferrand, this sludge/drone/doom metal project has been a fixture of France's underground since 2010. Massive, slow-building riffs and cavernous atmospheres define their doom approach.
Rooted in Athens's underground, this sludge/doom metal project delivers grim compositions with conviction since 2017. Their work explores the genre's darkest corners through immense heaviness.
Heryos is a progressive doom/heavy metal act from Aosta, Italy, active since 2023 and channeling monolithic heaviness through its doom metal framework. The project delivers oppressive, glacially paced compositions.
Heráldica de Mandrake is a doom metal band from Chile, evolving out of the earlier project Mandrake (2014–2017), whose members include vocalist and guitarist Francisco Visceral Rivera and drummer Cristian Rivera. The band has released several albums blending crushing doom with progressive and experimental elements, including "Esto también pasará" (2019) and "Nunca bastó con rezar" (2025), with their 2024 compilation "Magia Subversiva Metálica" issued on double CD by Paragon Records.
Hesper Payne is a doom/death metal band from Oxford, England, formed in 2006. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Bred in Amsterdam's underground, this act delivers grim progressive doom/post-metal since 2023. Slow, deliberate riffing and suffocating atmospheres form the foundation of their craft.
Out of Wichita since 2018, Hess n Hell deal in the bruising overlap between doom's slow grind, groove metal swagger, and classic heavy riffing. Their sound is blunt and earthy, built for low-ceilinged venues and speakers pushed past their limits.
Doom/sludge metal band from Limburg, Germany, formed in 2025. Their crushing, slow-tempo compositions deliver the suffocating weight of doom and sludge from the Lahn valley.
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