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The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Formed in St. Clairsville, Ohio in 2020, Skiba drags the heaviness of doom metal through thrash's aggressive forward momentum — an unlikely combination that suits the gritty, working-class sensibility of the Ohio Valley.
San Francisco's Skin Horse has been wading through thick sludge and crushing doom since 2016, drawing on the Bay Area's fertile heavy underground to craft slow, oppressive music with the weight of the Pacific behind it.
Huntington, West Virginia's Skincarver has been churning out sludge-drenched doom since 2016, embodying the heaviness that comes naturally to a hard-luck Appalachian city with a long history of hardship and a taste for music that doesn't flinch.
Peoria, Illinois' Skincase launched in 2023 rooted in stoner and doom metal's hazy, riff-forward tradition, an outfit from the industrial Midwest heartland that leans into fuzz-laden heaviness and psychedelic weight.
Corona, California's Skinslip work the intersection of sludge and doom, conjuring slow, weight-bearing riffs that reflect the smoggy, sun-bleached desolation of the Inland Empire since their formation in 2014.
Skitliv is a Norwegian black-doom metal band founded in Oslo in 2005 by former Mayhem vocalist Maniac (Sven Erik Kristiansen) and Shining vocalist Niklas Kvarforth. The project's name translates from Norwegian and Swedish as 'shit life,' and the band's conceptual focus on nihilism and human degradation reflects Maniac's desire to process his post-Mayhem years and confront personal demons in a darker and more brooding context than his previous work. Signed to Season of Mist, Skitliv remain active as an outlet for Maniac's most extreme artistic impulses.
Skjorta have been blending symphonic, doom, and gothic metal from Weil am Rhein on the Swiss-French-German tri-border since 2001. Their two-decade career at this cultural crossroads has produced music that draws from three national metal traditions simultaneously.
Colossal Doom / Post-Metal / Shoegaze out of Texas.
Columbia, Missouri's Skooma have been deep in the stoner and doom underground since 2009, the band's name borrowed from Elder Scrolls fantasy lore as a fitting label for music built on hazy, repetitive riffs and slow, narcotic heaviness.
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