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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Conquer (feat. Josh Mowery of Catch Your Breath) (2025)
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Immortalised is a black/doom metal act from Schoonhoven, Netherlands, active since 2021 and merging black metal's cold intensity with doom's suffocating weight. The project inhabits the darkest intersection of both genres.
Doom metal band from Warwickshire in the English Midlands, active since 2011. Their entombment-referencing name channels crushing doom from Shakespeare's county.
Houston's Imp Tea brews stoner and doom metal into a slow, hazy concoction that reflects the city's humid lethargy — heavy enough to crush, loose enough to feel lived-in.
Crawling out of La Puente since 2020, Impalement drag death metal into suffocating doom territory, piling on rot and weight in equal measure. Their sound sits somewhere between a funeral procession and a cave-in.
Imparity is a doom metal band from Bochum, Germany, formed in 2019, crafting monolithic, slow-motion compositions from the heart of the Ruhr industrial belt. The band's crushing, deliberate sound draws from the towering smokestacks and heavy industry that define their surroundings.
Imperceptum is an atmospheric black/funeral doom metal band from Bremen, Germany, active since 2016, merging the glacial pace of funeral doom with the frozen hostility of atmospheric black metal. The band creates vast, suffocating compositions from the Hanseatic city on the Weser.
In a Forest Dark is a gothic/doom/black metal act from Porto, Portugal, active since 2023 and merging black metal's cold intensity with doom's suffocating weight. The project inhabits the darkest intersection of both genres.
California's In Absence of Angels blend progressive ambition with the crushing weight of death-doom, crafting sprawling, desolate compositions that feel like grief mapped onto music since their 2021 formation.
In Absenthia is a melodic gothic/doom metal band from Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 2013. Comprising Bruno Braga (guitars/vocals), Gelisson Amaral (keyboards), William Farias (bass), and Erlon Gutterres (drums/vocals), the band released their debut full-length Thou Shalt Not Forgive Fate in March 2020 through Eclipsys Lunarys Productions. Their sound draws on the melancholic atmosphere of European gothic doom while incorporating South American sensibilities.
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