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The Sepulchral Diaspora is a doom metal band from Padua, Italy, formed in 2018. They create dark, sepulchral doom metal with oppressive atmospheres and funereal weight.
Seattle doom metal band formed in 2014, occupying the slower, noisier edge where doom metal bleeds into noise rock — a corner of the sound that feels appropriate given Seattle's long history with both heavy and abrasive music. Their material is dissonant and unhurried.
Chicago doom metal band formed in 2015 by former members of The Obsessed, carrying forward a lineage that connects them directly to some of the most important names in American doom. Their music is slow, heavy, and steeped in the classic doom tradition that prizes mood and weight over speed.
The Slayerking is a gothic/doom metal band from Athens, formed in 2019. Their music merges the dark romanticism of gothic metal with the crushing weight of doom, creating a regally oppressive sound.
Portland blackened sludge and doom metal outfit formed in 2014, fusing the corrosive atmosphere of black metal with the slow, crushing heaviness of sludge and doom in a combination that the Pacific Northwest underground has proven particularly fertile ground for cultivating. Their sound is dense, dissonant, and deliberately oppressive.
Hutchinson, Kansas act The Space Between pursue the crushing middle ground between death metal's aggression and doom's suffocating weight, forging death-doom that moves at a glacial, deliberate pace. Formed in 2019, their sound is marked by low tunings and a relentless sense of dread.
The Stellar Lake is a doom/gothic metal band from Drama in northern Greece, active since 2007. Their celestial name evokes the cosmic beauty that infuses their doom and gothic metal from the Macedonian heartland.
The Stoned Witches Experiment is a doom/stoner metal band from Olbia, Sardinia, Italy, formed in 2018. They create fuzz-drenched, psychedelic doom and stoner metal with occult-tinged grooves.
The Stones of Arkham from Leipzig merge stoner metal's fuzz-drenched grooves with doom metal's slow-burn heaviness, all through the Lovecraftian lens their name demands since 2014. Their cosmic horror-themed approach to riff worship channels both the weird fiction tradition and the psychedelic doom underground.
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