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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Doom metal band from Munster, Germany, formed in 2020. Their crushing, slow-tempo compositions channel the monolithic weight and existential dread that defines the doom metal tradition.
Stoner/sludge/doom metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, active since 2011. Their crushing blend of stoner groove, sludge weight, and doom heaviness creates an immersive sonic assault.
An uncompromising death/doom metal project from Joensuu, active since 2005. Technical precision and brutal aggression merge in their approach to the genre.
A furious doom metal entity from Asten, contributing to the dutch underground since 2010. Monolithic compositions and oppressive atmospheres define their crushing sound.
Hoodoo Ritual is a stoner/doom metal band from Malmö, Sweden, 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.
Stoner/doom metal band from Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, active since 2010, blending doomy stoner grunge metal into a fuzzy, aggressive package. Their album Marked delivers ten tracks of sludge-soaked heaviness across forty-four minutes of relentless riffing.
Toledo, Ohio's Hope Hole emerged in 2021 playing suffocating doom metal that sounds exactly as bleak as the name implies. Slow, heavy, and without consolation — crawling forward at the pace of deep grief.
Doom/Post-Metal project from Finland, forging searing compositions since 2024. Their work explores the genre's darkest corners through immense heaviness.
Hordes of Satan is a industrial doom metal act from Nottingham, United Kingdom, active since 2024 and channeling monolithic heaviness through its doom metal framework. The project delivers oppressive, glacially paced compositions.
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