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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Psychedelic doom and stoner metal band from Passau, Germany formed in 2019. Their releases Myriads and Dead Leaves channel heavy, mind-expanding soundscapes through a fusion of psychedelic textures and crushing doom metal weight.
Nashville isn't often associated with death-doom, but Wicked Sorcerer — formed there in 2023 — arrive dragging heavy metal, death metal, and doom together into something genuinely sinister. The city's outsider quality suits this kind of music well, and the band's willingness to pull from multiple extreme subgenres gives their sound a lurching, unpredictable weight.
Gainesville, Florida's Widow and Children have been dragging stoner and doom metal through the subtropical heat since 2015, cultivating a sound that's as much about atmosphere and weight as it is about riffs. Florida's oppressive humidity seems to thicken every note, and the band channels that sense of sluggish, psychedelic heaviness into slow-burning, fuzz-drenched songs.
Stoner and doom metal band from Toruń, Poland active since 2013. Wieczny Powrót, meaning "eternal return," crafts heavy stoner doom from the medieval Vistula city.
Stoner doom turned progressive heavy metal band from Darmstadt, Germany active since 2011 with an extensive catalog including Wight Weedy Wight, Through The Woods Into Deep Water, and Atlas. Their evolution from stoner/doom roots into heavier progressive territory has earned them a dedicated following and a split release with Stone Axe.
Heavy and doom metal band from Turin, Italy active since 2015. Wild Life merges the power of heavy metal with doom's crushing weight from the Piedmontese capital at the foot of the Alps.
Sludge and doom metal band from England active since 2017. Wildflower channels the crushing weight of sludge and doom through a paradoxically delicate-sounding name.
Seattle's Willard arrived in 2022 hauling doom and sludge metal traditions through the Pacific Northwest rain — a city that has produced some of the heaviest, most atmospheric music in the genre for decades, and Willard slot naturally into that lineage. Their sound is the kind of slow, crushing weight that feels like the grey Seattle sky pressing down on everything below it.
Out of Rogers, Arkansas, William Blake Is Doomed pair one of doom metal's most literary band names with the kind of heavy, slow-burning music the name demands — formed in 2020 in a part of the country not often associated with the genre, which only adds to the project's singular character. The Ozark region's isolation lends itself well to the introspective, crushing weight of funeral-paced doom.
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