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Colossal Doom Metal out of Texas.
Rippikoulu is a doom/death metal band from Valkeakoski in southern Finland, active since 2014. Named after the Finnish word for 'confirmation school,' the band delivers crushing doom-death from the Pirkanmaa region.
Rise and Shine is a doom metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed around 2000. One of the elder statesmen of the Swedish doom scene, the band has been crafting heavy, slow-burning compositions for over two decades.
Death/doom metal band from Kraków, Poland, active since 2018. Named after the kabbalistic Tree of Knowledge concept, their approach merges death metal with doom from Poland's cultural capital.
Blackened doom metal project from Norway's Møre og Romsdal county, formed in 2024. Their approach merges black metal's hostility with doom metal's crushing weight from the fjord country.
Black/doom metal band from Catalão, Goiás, founded on September 13, 2024, with all lyrics written in Portuguese and themes drawn from occultism, melancholia, and classical literature. The band released the EP O Sexto Círculo in 2025.
Formed in 2024 out of Nashville (listed under Georgia), Rituaal operate at the bleak intersection of black, death, and doom metal — a combination that trades speed for suffocating dread. Their multi-genre approach suggests a band more interested in atmosphere and weight than genre purity. Still early in their existence, they carry the ambition of a project with a clear sonic vision from the start.
Ritual Blood is a doom metal project from Germany, formed in 2021. The project channels slow, crushing doom metal with ritualistic overtones from the German underground.
Seattle's Ritual Cairn carve out a grim and deliberate space where black metal's cold malevolence meets doom's crushing pace, formed in 2020 in a city whose grey skies and rain-soaked winters suit the genre perfectly. Their name — a cairn being a mound of stones marking a sacred or funerary site — signals an interest in weight, memory, and place. The black/doom hybrid they work with rewards patience, building tension rather than releasing it.
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