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Antiklan is a post-doom and sludge metal trio from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, formed in 2022. The band — vocalist Julia Gusso, guitarist and bassist Flávio França, and drummer Max Barros — released their debut album 'Under Wetiko (Hymns from beneath the Veil)' in 2022, a five-track record recorded at Studio Black Hole in Natal and mixed in São Paulo. Their heavy, socially charged sound blends sludge and doom with an explicitly DIY, anti-authoritarian ethos, earning comparisons to punk-infused sludge.
Portland doom metal project named after the ancient Greek astronomical calculator.
Antimatter Belt 1969 delivers death-doom metal from Helsinki since 2021, their cryptic space-age name hinting at cosmic themes explored through crushing tempo and guttural fury. The project's unique identity stands out even in Helsinki's crowded extreme metal landscape.
Minsk-based project blending depressive black metal, death metal, and doom, tagged on Bandcamp as DSBM and doom/death. Their 2018 release "Nothingness" consists of three elongated tracks—"No Thoughts," "No Pain," and "No Life"—built around themes of existential emptiness and self-erasure.
Anátema was a black/doom metal band from Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil, formed in 2021. The band combined the desolate atmosphere of black metal with the slow, crushing weight of doom metal, drawing from a region of Brazil with a small but growing extreme metal underground before splitting up.
Aooom channels doom metal from Saint Petersburg since 2020. Their drawn-out name — extending the mystic syllable 'om' — captures the meditative, infinitely sustained quality of their glacial compositions.
Apanthropia merges black metal, doom metal, and gothic metal from the French underground since 2009, their misanthropic name reflecting a withdrawal from humanity into sonic darkness. Their triple-genre fusion creates a rich, atmospheric sound of deep emotional weight.
San Francisco thrash metal act with six releases since 2018, including the Connecticut-referencing Connecticut Casual series. Their prolific output and the cryptic King Of Gods. No Second demonstrate a band with both the ambition and work ethic to stand out in the Bay Area's crowded thrash field.
Portland doom metal act named after the longest lava tube in the continental US, located in nearby Washington State. Their 2016 debut Pillars of Evolution pairs geological time scales with crushing heaviness, the subterranean imagery perfectly matching their cavernous sound.
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