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Norway — death metal and doom metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2024, they deal in percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
Stoner/doom metal band from Leeds, formed in 2025 and channeling the cosmic themes suggested by their name into heavy, fuzz-laden doom. Their sound blends stoner metal's psychedelic haze with doom's crushing weight.
Formed in 2018, this Oslo Doom Metal and Sludge Metal outfit delivers tar-thick riffs and feedback-drenched nihilism. Their place within the frozen north that birthed an entire genre speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Greek-born, Wales-based multi-instrumentalist active since 2005, best known as the creative force behind the funeral doom and atmospheric metal project Pantheist. His solo work under his own name creates atmospheric music "for black hearts," spanning ambient, neoclassical, and funeral doom across releases like Dark Flights and Chamber of Isolation.
Moscow-based black/doom metal band with releases including Dissolved In The Abyss, Spirit Of Plague, and Temple Pestis, the latter released through Daemon Worship Productions. Their sound merges black metal's blasting ferocity with doom metal's crushing weight and pestilent atmospherics.
When Kotiomkin emerged in 2014 from Martinsicuro (Teramo), they brought with them a sound rooted in doom metal, progressive metal, and stoner metal — all genre-bending ambition that refuses easy categorization. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Opole, Poland — doom metal and stoner metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2011, they deal in desert-baked tonality and psychedelic haze over lumbering rhythms. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Stoner/doom metal band from Greenock on Scotland's Clyde coast, formed in 2020 and named with a nod to German industrial aesthetics. Their sound merges stoner metal's groove-driven fuzz with doom's ponderous heaviness.
Kraftvøid is a São Paulo-based instrumental stoner/doom metal project founded by Gustavo Lima in March 2020. The project pursues a raw, organic approach to heavy music and released its self-titled debut album in January 2022, featuring tracks such as "I Am The Emptiness" and "Fire of a Thousand Suns." Operating without a Spotify presence, the project distributes its music independently through Bandcamp.
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