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Sordid Spell are a doom metal band from Providence, Rhode Island, formed in 2023, channeling the city's dark occult undercurrent into slow, heavy metal steeped in gloom and dark atmosphere.
Black/doom/folk metal project from Hoegaarden in Flemish Brabant, active since 2020, weaving together three of metal's most atmospheric subgenres. Their multi-genre fusion creates an evocative sound that draws on folk traditions, the crushing weight of doom, and the raw intensity of black metal.
Sorge are a Washington state psychedelic stoner/doom metal band formed in 2023, crafting slow, hazy, riff-heavy music that draws from both the fuzz-driven stoner tradition and the glacial tempos of doom with a psychedelic edge.
Sorm are a Seattle, Washington band formed in 2018 that fuses black metal's cold ferocity with the slow, punishing weight of sludge and doom metal, reflecting the Pacific Northwest's fertile ground for dark, heavy hybrid sounds.
Soros are a Grand Rapids, Michigan industrial doom metal band formed in 2016, layering the crushing tempos and downcast atmosphere of doom metal with the mechanistic textures and sonic abrasion of industrial music.
Nizhny Tagil's Sorrow of Rain have been crafting funeral doom metal since 2014. Their name of grief-laden precipitation and origins in the Ural industrial city channel the relentless downpour of sorrow into compositions of glacially paced heaviness.
Dallas blackened doom/sludge. Crushing, atmospheric heaviness.
Kharkiv's Sorrowful Land pair doom and death metal from the war-affected eastern Ukrainian city since 2023. Their terrain-of-grief name channels the sorrow saturating the landscape of eastern Ukraine into compositions of crushing, emotionally charged heaviness.
Odesa's Sorrowsight pair gothic and doom metal from the Black Sea port since 2020. Their grief-vision name channels the perspective of one who sees only sorrow into darkly atmospheric compositions from Ukraine's maritime jewel.
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