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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Death/doom metal band from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, formed in 2020. Their cremation-themed name accompanies crushing death-doom from the Dutch port city.
Mukachevo doom metal act formed in 2013, delivering crushing heaviness from the Zakarpattia region near the Hungarian border. Their slow-burning approach channels doom metal's most ponderous and weighty traditions.
Funeral doom/death metal band from Eindhoven, the Netherlands, active since 2006. Two decades of glacially paced, agonizing extreme metal from the Dynamo festival city.
Sludge/doom metal band from Tomsk, Russia, active since 2010. Their long-running project delivers crushing heaviness from the Siberian university city.
Kyiv doom/death metal act formed in 2021, merging crushing heaviness with death metal's guttural intensity from Ukraine's capital. Their fusion channels the most oppressive traditions of both genres.
Gothic/doom/death metal band from Nyíregyháza in northeastern Hungary, formed in 2023. Their approach blends three dark metal genres from the Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county seat.
Doom metal band from Foggia, Italy, formed in 2022. Their approach delivers ponderous, crushing doom from the Apulian flatlands.
Doom/gothic metal/rock band from Dordrecht, the Netherlands, active since 2018. Their approach blends doom metal's weight with gothic atmosphere from the oldest city in Holland.
London sludge and doom metal outfit formed in 2018, delivering crushing sonic weight through slow-burning heaviness and abrasive textures. Their oppressive sound channels the genre's most suffocating and cathartic impulses.
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