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The Black from Pescara deliver heavy, doom, and progressive metal from the Abruzzo coast since 2016. A decade of darkened compositions from the Adriatic shore.
The Bottle Doom Lazy Band from Poitiers deliver doom metal with the alcohol-soaked, slothful energy their self-deprecating name demands since 2007. Nearly two decades of deliberately languid, bourbon-fueled doom from western France has produced gloriously unhurried compositions.
New York's The Bronx Casket Co. have been crafting gothic/doom metal with a morbid elegance since their 2011 reconstitution, drawing on the genre's marriage of heavy riffs and romantic melancholy that the band has always executed with more craft than camp. Their sound belongs to the tradition of doom that treats grief and darkness as aesthetic resources rather than ends in themselves.
The Brothers Keg from London deliver stoner, doom, and sludge metal with the beer-barrel camaraderie their pub-culture name demands since 2017. Their compositions pair fuzz-drenched heaviness with the fraternal bonding of a good session at the local.
Detroit's The ChristPunchers have been wallowing in drone/doom metal and ambient darkness since 2011, their name an act of provocation matched by music that slows riffs to a near-geological tempo and lets dissonance linger until it becomes its own form of heavy. They're a product of Detroit's underground, where extremity has always found creative expression in the city's post-industrial silence.
The Clips from Lecce deliver doom metal from the baroque capital of Puglia since 2015. A decade of crushing compositions from the ornate southern Italian city.
The Cold View is a German funeral doom metal project from Darmstadt, formed in 2012, with some claiming they play "the world's slowest funeral doom." Their extensive catalog — including "Weeping Winter," "Wires of Woe, Ways of Waste," and splits with Abysmal Growls of Despair — explores glacially paced, crushingly heavy doom.
The Corona Lantern from Prague craft doom and sludge metal that balances crushing heaviness with atmospheric depth, active since 2015 in the Czech capital's diverse metal scene. Their sound draws from the slow, suffocating weight of doom tradition while incorporating the abrasive textures of sludge.
The Covenant from Bilbao are one of Spain's longest-running doom and post-metal acts, active since 1991 in the Basque Country's industrial capital. Over three decades, they have evolved from pure doom into post-metal territory, making them genuine pioneers of the Spanish heavy underground.
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