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Melodic death/doom started as a one-man project by Casey Hurd. Signed to Napalm Records. Albums include Order Divine and Shatter And Fall.
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Doom/drone/sludge metal band from Madrid, Spain, active since 2010. Their suffocating blend of drone, doom, and sludge creates an overwhelming wall of sound from the Spanish capital.
The name alone announces Eugene, Oregon's Hippie Death Cult as a band with a sense of humor about the stoner doom genre they clearly love. Since 2019 they've delivered fuzz-caked, psychedelic doom that is simultaneously self-aware and genuinely heavy.
Hirjä is a raw black/funeral doom metal project from Grand Est, France, active since 2024 and crafting glacially slow, suffocating heaviness at the most oppressive tempos in extreme metal. The project plumbs the depths of despair through crushing, extended compositions.
Hirveä is a drone/doom metal act from Finland, active since 2017 and channeling monolithic heaviness through its doom metal framework. The project delivers oppressive, glacially paced compositions.
Doom/sludge metal trio from Charleroi, Belgium, formed in 2017, whose lyrics are drawn from the singer's real-life encounters as a social worker. Albums including Twisted Mind, Alföldy's Theory, and Isomorphism channel grim stories of maltreatment into crushing, socially conscious doom-sludge.
Spanish band from Alicante, active since 2012, evolving from black metal into black/doom metal and dark ambient territory. Named after the Misty Mountains of Tolkien, their sound has grown increasingly atmospheric and experimental.
Philadelphia's Hivelords collapse the boundaries between black metal, doom, and sludge into a dense, oppressive mass that borrows from each tradition without fully belonging to any of them. Since 2011 they've occupied a particularly unpleasant corner of the extreme metal underground, and they seem comfortable there.
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