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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Stoner and doom metal band from London, England, formed in 2016, dealing in heavy, low-tuned riffs and crushing grooves. They contribute to London's extensive stoner and doom metal community.
Death and doom metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2022, refracting death-doom through the prism of Ukrainian underground metal. They bring crushing, multifaceted heaviness from the capital.
Blacksburg, Virginia's Prison have been building slow, toxic structures out of sludge and doom metal since 2015, creating music that feels less like songs and more like confinement made audible. Their Bandcamp presence under 'venomprison' underscores the toxic intensity they bring to the genre — this isn't meditative doom, it's punishing and claustrophobic. A decade into their existence, they've established themselves as one of the more unrelenting acts to emerge from Virginia's metal underground.
Crushing Melodic Doom / Death Metal from Dallas.
Experimental doom metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne, England, formed in 2020, pushing the boundaries of doom metal with unconventional and experimental approaches. They bring adventurous heaviness to the Tyneside metal scene.
Probot is the brainchild of Dave Grohl — a sprawling heavy metal superproject that united some of the most iconic voices in underground metal history, including Lemmy Kilmister, Max Cavalera, Wino, and members of Discharge and Sepultura. Operating out of Alexandria, Virginia and drawing from doom, stoner, groove, and classic heavy metal, the project stands as a reverent and thunderous love letter to the genres that shaped Grohl long before Nirvana.
Doom and death metal turned sludge metal band from Evora, Portugal, active since 2006, evolving from crushing doom-death into sludge territory. Nearly two decades mark them as one of Portugal's most respected heavy acts.
Procession are a death/doom band from Cleveland, Ohio whose sound draws equally from the suffocating weight of doom and the rotting fury of death metal — a fitting combination for a city with one of America's most storied underground metal legacies. Active since 2010, they move at a funeral pace without sacrificing the visceral menace that separates genuine death/doom from mere slow metal.
Doom and death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2024, juxtaposing the profane with tranquility through crushing doom-death. They channel dark serenity from the Greek capital.
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