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Rauna is a black/stoner/doom metal band from Finland, active since 2016. The project combines the unusual fusion of black metal atmosphere with stoner and doom metal heaviness.
Raven is a funeral doom metal band from Mellunmäki in eastern Helsinki, Finland, active since 2010. The band delivers glacially slow, crushing funeral doom from the Finnish capital's suburban eastern districts.
Ravenfrost is a black/doom metal and ambient project from Schmelz in the Saarland region of Germany, active since 2013. The project layers ambient textures over black and doom metal foundations, creating expansive, atmospheric soundscapes from western Germany.
Kyiv atmospheric black/doom metal act active since 2006, crafting immersive sonic landscapes through the fusion of atmospheric intensity and crushing weight. Their two decades of contemplative extremity have established them in the Ukrainian underground.
Gothic/doom/death metal band from Rome, Italy, active since 2013. Their approach blends three dark metal genres into richly atmospheric music from the Eternal City.
Re-Fuse is an industrial death/doom metal and grindcore band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, active since 2013. The band merges industrial electronics with extreme metal from the Northern Irish capital.
Fort Worth's Realm Drifter crawled out of the Texas heat in 2022 dealing in stoner-doom that stretches riffs into long, resin-thick passages and anchors them with the weight of the Lone Star sun. It's psychedelic, slow, and heavy in the way that only bands steeped in the Texas desert-rock tradition manage.
Melodic death/doom metal band from Kuznetsk, Russia, active since 2015. Their approach blends melodic death metal with doom's crushing weight from the Penza Oblast town.
Rebuig is a sludge/doom metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2015. Named after the Catalan word for 'rejection,' the band delivers crushing sludge and doom from the Catalan capital.
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