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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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A Saint Paul project born in 2025, Toward Eternity blend heavy, gothic, and doom metal into a brooding, melodically rich sound, drawing equally from 90s gothic rock atmosphere and traditional doom's slow, crushing weight.
St. Augustine, Florida's Tower deal in the slow and crushing intersection of doom and sludge metal, leaning into feedback-drenched heaviness and plodding tempos that reward patient listening with a suffocating sense of weight.
California's Towering, active since 2016, occupy the slow, suffocating space where drone, doom, and sludge converge, building massive walls of distortion and deliberate, glacial pacing into music that functions more as a physical experience than a conventional listen.
Trachea is a sludge/doom metal band from Jõhvi, Estonia, formed in 2014. They deliver crushing sludge and doom from the northeastern Estonian industrial region.
Nestled in the mountains of Franconia, New Hampshire, Tractorass have been hauling stoner doom's slow, bludgeoning weight since 2004, blending fuzz-soaked riffs with the lethargic, oppressive atmosphere the genre does best.
Tradewind from Volos craft progressive and doom metal named after the persistent oceanic winds since 2014. A decade from the Thessalian port city — launching point of the Argonauts — has produced steadily blowing compositions of atmospheric weight.
Portland's Tragedy are one of the more distinctive voices in heavy music, weaving crust punk's anarchic urgency together with doom and sludge metal's oppressive weight to create something that feels both furious and crushing.
Trahir from Prague blend heavy metal weight with doom metal's slow-burn intensity and hard rock groove, occupying a darkly melodic middle ground since 2018. Their French-derived name — meaning 'to betray' — hints at the dramatic tension woven through their compositions.
Frederick, Maryland's Trail of Wreckage push doom metal into experimental territory since forming in 2020, building on the genre's foundational heaviness while introducing unconventional textures and structures.
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