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Recitation is a drone/doom/death metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, active since 2014. The band merges glacially slow drone and doom with death metal extremity from the Danish capital.
From the small town of Byesville, Ohio, Reclusa have built one of the more genuinely hybrid sounds in the American underground since 2017 — death/doom heaviness threaded through with black metal cold, industrial noise, and dark ambient texture. The isolation of their rural Ohio setting comes through in music that feels removed from any scene, answering only to its own grim logic.
Reclvse is a doom metal band from Swansea in south Wales, active since 2013. Over a decade of crushing doom metal from the Welsh coast.
Instrumental stoner/doom trio from João Pessoa, Paraíba, comprising Bruno Alves, Magno Fontolan, and Neto Londres. The band draws on blues, low-tuned riffs, and psychedelic textures without vocals, and released their self-titled debut EP in April 2014.
Red Eye is a psychedelic doom/stoner metal band from Antequera in Málaga province, Andalusia, Spain, formed in 2019. The band channels hazy, fuzz-laden doom from the ancient Andalusian town beneath the limestone plateau of El Torcal.
Red Eyed Cult is a stoner/doom metal band from Norwich in Norfolk, England, formed in 2023. The band delivers fuzz-drenched doom from the medieval city in East Anglia.
Red Fountain is a psychedelic doom/stoner metal band from Alicante on the Costa Blanca of Spain, formed in 2024. The band delivers heavy, sun-baked psychedelic doom from the Levantine coast.
Red Lion is a doom metal band from Bjæverskov on the island of Zealand in Denmark, formed in 2013. The band delivers heavy, slow-paced doom metal from the rural Danish countryside south of Copenhagen.
Red Moon Architect is a melodic doom/death metal band from Kouvola in southeastern Finland, active since 2012. Over a decade of melancholic doom-death from the Kymenlaakso region has established the band in the Finnish doom scene.
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