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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Gothic/doom metal band from Wrocław, Poland, formed in 2021. Their approach blends gothic atmosphere with doom metal's crushing weight from the Lower Silesian capital.
Rainroom is a progressive death/doom metal and ambient project from Espoo, Finland, active since 2016. The project layers ambient atmospherics over progressive death-doom from the major city adjacent to Helsinki.
Raise the Black is a melodic doom/death metal band from Nottingham, England, formed in 2017. The band weaves melody into crushing doom-death from the East Midlands.
Epic black/doom/folk metal band from Obninsk, Russia, active since 2001. Nearly a quarter century of fantasy-inspired extreme metal blending black metal, doom, and folk elements from the Moscow Oblast science city.
Ramesses is a sludge/doom/death metal band from Wimborne Minster in Dorset, England, active since 2018. The band channels crushing, multi-layered extreme doom from the rural English south coast.
Doom/death metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2024. Their approach combines doom's crushing weight with death metal's ferocity from Russia's northern capital.
Pioneering Milanese funeral doom act formed in 1993, whose sole album 'Oneiricon - The White Hypnotic' stands as a landmark of the genre alongside Thergothon and Skepticism. Their lurching rhythms, church organs, and Gregorian-influenced vocals introduced neo-classical elements to funeral doom before members went on to form Canaan.
Atmospheric doom/death/post-metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2019. Their ambitious three-genre approach delivers immersive, atmospheric extreme metal from the Norwegian capital.
Rato Triste is a sludge noise band based in Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2019 and self-describing their sound simply as 'sludge noise.' Their catalog includes a split tape with Amusia and multiple EPs, culminating in the release Choked by my own dreams.
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