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Hanged Ghost is a doom/death metal band from Portugal, formed in 2023. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
San Diego's Hanging Garden have cultivated a strain of depressive black metal since 2013 that leans heavily into isolation and despair, letting long, suffocating passages take root in the mind.
Formed in Crosne, Essonne, France in 2005 out of the local hardcore punk scene, Hangman's Chair began with a stoner and sludge-oriented approach before finding their defining identity in a bleaker, more post-punk influenced doom with the 2012 trilogy opener Hope /// Dope /// Rope. Albums including Banlieue triste (2018) on Spinefarm Records and A Loner (2022) on Nuclear Blast deepened their absorption of cold wave, shoegaze, and new wave into a desolate heavy framework. Their catalog is one of the most distinctive in European doom metal, rooted in Parisian suburban alienation.
Painesville, Ohio's Hangnail have been grinding away since 1998, their thrash and grindcore roots keeping them lean and mean across nearly three decades of relentless, no-frills extremity.
Hangvart is a depressive black/doom metal band from Toulouse, France, formed in 2013. They channel bleak, emotionally devastating black metal from the depths of despair.
A savage atmospheric black/doom metal entity from Hungary, active since 2017. Cold atmospheres and venomous vocals define their particular approach to the genre.
Based in South Sweden, this stoner/doom metal project has been a fixture of Sweden's underground since 2015. Glacial compositions unfold with crushing weight, exploring despair and transcendence.
An uncompromising drone/doom metal act from the norwegian underground, active since 2021. Towering riffs and funereal tempos characterize their strain of the genre.
Harbinger of Storms is a doom metal act from Edinburgh, United Kingdom, active since 2022 and channeling monolithic heaviness through its doom metal framework. The project delivers oppressive, glacially paced compositions.
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