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Welsh stoner/doom metal band from Cardiff, delivering fuzz-drenched heaviness since 2017. Their anatomical name reflects the breathing, organic quality of their stoner doom compositions.
Finnish death/doom/sludge metal band from Tampere, merging three strains of heaviness since 2018. Their sound combines death metal's brutality, doom's crushing pace, and sludge's toxic abrasiveness.
Lexington's Lurking drag black metal into sludge and drone territory, piling glacial riffs on top of one another until the weight becomes its own kind of violence. Since 2016 they've made suffocation feel ceremonial.
French gothic/doom metal band from Paris, self-described as 'Doom Death Prog from France' with influences spanning Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, and Cathedral. Their 2022 album 'Dark Odyssey' features seven tracks across 58 minutes, including a fifteen-minute opening composition.
London-based avant-garde black/doom metal band active since 2013, self-described as 'Metal's soundtrack to dystopia' on Debemur Morti Productions. Their five-album catalog from 'Lychgate' through 'Precipice' pushes black and doom metal into cerebral, experimental territory.
Finnish heavy/doom metal band from Kantala, active since 2019 and performing in Finnish. Their name, meaning 'lead company,' evokes the dense, leaden weight of their doom-infused heavy metal.
Italian stoner/doom metal band from Asti in Piedmont, delivering hazy heaviness since 2001. Their deliberately misspelled name, combining 'wisdom' with 'doom,' reflects over two decades of groove-laden stoner doom.
Southern California's Lysis have been merging the crawl of doom with death metal's rot since 2008, crafting music from the Inland Empire that sounds like decomposition set to a slow, inevitable tempo. Grief rendered in distortion.
Lábar'Oculto is a black/doom metal band from Piraju, São Paulo, formed in 2017, whose lyrics draw on poetry, literature, and occultism. The band released their self-titled debut album in 2020 through Misanthropic Records and Black Hearts Records, recorded at Amarello Sound Studio between 2017 and 2019. The album was preceded by the single Lábar'Oculto (Contravulgata) and a live recording from UMF XVIII.
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