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Named after the mythical Lovecraftian city of the gods, Kadath are a funeral doom outfit from Ephrata, Pennsylvania, conjuring glacially slow, suffocating heaviness since 2018. Their music wallows in sorrow and enormity, built for listeners who find comfort in the abyss.
One-person blackened doom metal project from Skegness, UK, launched in 2021 with the album Ascension on Narcoleptica Productions. The three tracks on Ascension stretch past twelve minutes each, delivering crushing, glacially paced blackened doom where all composition, instruments, vocals, and production are handled solo.
Ambient black/funeral doom metal project from Finland, formed in 2016 with a name meaning "lost" in Finnish. Their sound merges ambient black metal's atmospheric expansiveness with funeral doom's glacial heaviness.
Moscow-based funeral doom and dark ambient project active since 2013, exploring Christian thematic elements through crushing, glacially paced compositions. Releases like weeping and gnashing of teeth draw on biblical imagery, pairing sludge-heavy riffs with oppressive atmospherics across extended tracks.
Doom/stoner metal band from Jyvaskyla in central Finland, formed in 2022 and delivering crushing, fuzz-drenched heaviness from the Finnish lake district. Their Finnish name meaning "longing" or "nostalgia" captures the melancholic weight of their doom.
Funeral doom metal project from Wales, active since 2015 and specializing in the genre's most glacially paced, emotionally crushing extremes. The project builds vast, sorrowful compositions defined by impossibly slow tempos and suffocating heaviness.
Stavanger-based doom metal and stoner metal act, active since 2015 delivering wah-soaked leads and bass-heavy grooves in the tradition of Kyuss and Sleep. Rooted in Norway's storied extreme metal lineage, their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
Swiss doom-sludge outfit from Solothurn active from 2020 to 2025, whose self-titled LP and Dethroned Forever EP deliver crushing, slow-burning heaviness with tracks stretching past eight minutes. Their grinding, weighted production draws comparisons to Dopethrone and The Obsessed.
Stoner/doom duo Kalgon arrived out of Asheville, North Carolina in 2024, planting themselves in a city long synonymous with heavy, riff-driven underground music. Their sound is thick and slow-moving, built on the fuzz-soaked foundations that have made Asheville a haven for this kind of music.
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