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New Jersey's Negative Bliss arrived in 2024 at the intersection of sludge, doom, and post-metal — genres that share a fondness for letting weight do the work. Their music expands slowly, trading velocity for gravitational pull.
Negative Concept is a Parisian doom/sludge metal band formed in 2015 by Cédric M., delivering a genre-spanning sound they describe as doom sludge grunge through black metal with blues sources. Their 2022 debut Unwelcome explores the darkness and complexity of the human soul across ten tracks of crushing, disillusioned heaviness.
Lviv death/doom metal act with folk influences, formed in 2012 and merging crushing heaviness with traditional melodic elements from western Ukraine's cultural capital. Their folk-inflected approach adds a distinctive Ukrainian character to the doom/death tradition.
Zagreb doom and sludge metal outfit formed in 2015, delivering oppressive sonic weight and slow-burning heaviness from Croatia's capital. Their crushing approach channels the most suffocating impulses of both genres.
Negative Voice is a melodic death/doom metal band from Shilovo in Ryazan Oblast, Russia, active since 2013. They craft sorrowful compositions from this small town southeast of Moscow.
Negatron is a black/doom/thrash metal band from Padua, Italy, active since 2020. They merge three heavy genres into a dense, negatively charged sonic force.
Negatum is a black/doom metal band from Freilassing on the Austrian border in Bavaria, active since 2004. Two decades of fusing black metal bleakness with doom's crushing weight from the Salzburg-adjacent border town.
Nekhen is a black/doom metal project from Italy, active since 2015. Named after the ancient Egyptian city (modern Hierakonpolis), they channel pharaonic darkness.
Melodic doom/death metal act from Athens distinguished by the incorporation of saxophone into their mournful compositions. Their self-titled 2013 debut, released in a limited hand-numbered run of 500 copies, explores themes of sorrow, suffering, and personal anguish.
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