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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Swaumphth is a black, thrash, and doom metal project from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, formed in 2025, exploring a primitive and murky convergence of those traditions.
Critically acclaimed stoner doom from Austin.
Sweet Cicada is a doom and stoner metal band from Lewisburg, West Virginia, active since 2014, drawing on the Appalachian landscape for a heavy, psychedelic sound rooted in vintage fuzz and slow tempos.
Sweetland is a psychedelic doom metal and grunge-influenced project from Mankato, Minnesota, formed in 2025, combining slow, heavy riffs with hazy, druggy atmosphere.
Sword is a sludge and doom metal band from Richmond, Virginia, formed in 2015, drawing on that city's storied heavy underground to deliver low, slow, and punishing guitar-driven music.
Albuquerque, New Mexico's Sword Horse have played sludge and doom metal since 2018, incorporating noise elements into their heavy, slow-churning sound shaped by the high desert Southwest.
Halmstad's Swordblood pair epic doom and death metal from the Halland coast since 2022. Their blade-and-blood name channels the gore of combat into compositions of heroic, crushing heaviness from the West Swedish shore.
Gothenburg's Swordwielder merge crust punk, thrash, and doom metal from Sweden's metal capital since 2012. Over a decade of channeling their blade-bearer name into compositions of multi-genre heaviness that combine punk urgency with metallic weight.
Visby's Swarth pair doom and death metal from the medieval Gotland capital since 2020. Their archaic word meaning "sward" or "turf" and origins within the UNESCO-listed walled city channel the ancient earth beneath medieval stones into compositions of crushing heaviness.
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