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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Opole, Poland — doom metal and stoner metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2011, they deal in desert-baked tonality and psychedelic haze over lumbering rhythms. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Stoner/doom metal band from Greenock on Scotland's Clyde coast, formed in 2020 and named with a nod to German industrial aesthetics. Their sound merges stoner metal's groove-driven fuzz with doom's ponderous heaviness.
Kraftvøid is a São Paulo-based instrumental stoner/doom metal project founded by Gustavo Lima in March 2020. The project pursues a raw, organic approach to heavy music and released its self-titled debut album in January 2022, featuring tracks such as "I Am The Emptiness" and "Fire of a Thousand Suns." Operating without a Spotify presence, the project distributes its music independently through Bandcamp.
Experimental black/doom metal project from Finland, active since 2008 and pushing extreme metal into unconventional territory. Their name referencing both the mythological sea monster and a dual rulership system captures their ambitious, dual-natured approach.
Viennese "pagan desert doom" outfit merging heavy fuzz sounds with folklore since 2016, with releases including the albums Ouroboros and Odyssea. Their sound rides the line between stoner rock's sun-baked grooves and doom metal's crushing weight.
Doom/death metal band from Scotland, active since 2016 and dwelling at the heavy intersection of funeral-paced doom and death metal's guttural intensity. Their sound combines crushing slowness with death metal's brutal vocal and rhythmic approach.
Funeral doom metal/ambient project from the Baltic island of Usedom, active since 2011 and crafting glacially slow, cosmic compositions. Their seaside isolation and cosmic scope produce some of the most meditative heavy music in the German underground.
Psychedelic doom/heavy metal/hard rock band from the Kymi-Poitsila area, formed in 2021 and blending retro doom with trippy, mind-expanding elements. Their skull-themed name captures the death-obsessed psychedelia at the heart of their sound.
Scorching Black Metal (early); Melodic Post-Black Metal / Shoegaze (mid); Black / Death / Doom Metal (later) from Keller.
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