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A psychedelic doom outfit from the small Wisconsin town of Hatley, Third Eye Rider pursue the hazy crossroads where stoner riffing and slow, crushing doom converge. Their sound leans into extended, fog-thick arrangements that reward patience over speed.
Third Island is a doom and post-metal band from Limerick, Ireland, formed in 2016. They blend the crushing heaviness of doom with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness and dynamic builds.
This I Owe is a progressive heavy/doom metal/hard rock band from Athens, formed in 2023. Their music blends progressive complexity with the weight of doom and the accessibility of hard rock.
Hailing from Pampa, Texas — a remote stretch of the Panhandle — This Noose... My Neck... practice funeral doom of the most desolate variety, stretching grief and isolation into glacially slow compositions that feel as vast as the surrounding plains.
Thod from Paris craft blackened doom metal whose name evokes ancient, ominous weight since 2023. Their compositions merge black metal's atmospheric hostility with doom's crushing pace from the French capital.
Thole is a sludge/doom metal band from Athens, active since 2017. Their name, an archaic English word meaning 'to endure suffering,' captures the patient heaviness of their sludge-laden doom.
Named after cinema's most infamous Texan, Ocala, Florida's Thomas Hewitt deal in sludge and doom metal — murky, down-tuned, and heavy enough to flatten furniture, with the rural dread their namesake implies.
Thoreous is a drone/doom metal band from the Freiburg/Stuttgart corridor of Germany, formed in 2013. They craft glacially paced, hypnotic drone doom that pushes heaviness to its extremes.
A Phoenix, Arizona death/doom act also formed in 2023, Thorn blend the suffocating weight of funeral-adjacent doom with death metal's aggression, conjuring an atmosphere as unforgiving as the desert heat.
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