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The Fear (2022)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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Atmospheric doom/death metal project from Finland, formed in 2017 and named after the tragic hero of the Finnish national epic Kalevala. Their sound channels the mythological sorrow and doomed fate of their Kalevala namesake.
Progressive doom/sludge metal band from London, active since 2011 and navigating the boundary between progressive composition and the crushing weight of doom and sludge metal. Their sound balances intricate arrangements with monolithic heaviness.
Death/doom and gothic metal band from Kuopio, active since 2014 with a Finnish name meaning "valley of death." Their sound merges crushing death-doom weight with gothic metal's dark elegance from the eastern Finnish lakeland.
Sheffield duo creating what they call "hypnotic/hallucinogenic heavy metal" since 2014, with a catalog spanning releases like Born of Obsidian, Of Amber and Sand, and a three-way split with Conan and Granule. Their sound fuses doom, sludge, and psychedelia into a trance-inducing wall of heaviness.
Stoner/doom metal band from London, formed in 2023 and blending Lovecraftian horror themes with the fuzzed-out heaviness of stoner doom. Their name fuses cannabis culture with Cthulhu mythos, pointing to a sound that is both cosmically dread-laden and haze-soaked.
Parisian blackened doom and death metal project formed in 2020, drawing from a wide spectrum of extreme metal influences including Bathory, Darkspace, and Amon Amarth. Their releases Abyssal Realms and Rulers and Abismal Satyricon blend black, death, and doom metal with pagan and folk elements into a dark, expansive sound.
Blackened doom metal project from Dusseldorf, formed in 2017 and merging black metal's icy aggression with doom's crushing heaviness. Their abbreviated name conceals a dense, layered approach to extreme metal.
When Kyata emerged in 2015 from Barcelos, they brought with them a sound rooted in doom metal and stoner metal — all desert-baked tonality and psychedelic haze over lumbering rhythms. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Atmospheric/funeral doom metal project from Tampere, formed in 2022 with a Finnish name meaning "into the coldness." Their glacially slow compositions channel the numbing, frozen weight of Finnish winter through doom metal's most extreme form.
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