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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Stoner/doom metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 2020. Their arboreal name frames riff-heavy stoner doom from the Croatian capital.
Psychedelic doom/stoner metal and rock act from Istanbul's Kadıköy district, formed in 2022 and merging trippy sonic explorations with crushing heaviness. Their genre-spanning approach channels both psychedelia's expansive consciousness and doom's oppressive weight.
Long Island's Rigor Sardonicous occupies a particularly suffocating corner of extreme metal, blending funeral doom's glacial tempos with the rotting weight of death metal into something genuinely oppressive. Founded in 2009, the band strips away any trace of accessibility in favor of cavernous atmosphere and crushing, elongated compositions. Few acts in the funeral doom/death metal space commit so fully to the art of slow, deliberate destruction.
Ringing Bell emerged from Urbana, Illinois in 2024 as a new entry into the fertile American sludge/stoner/doom underground, layering tar-thick guitar tones over slow-burning, feedback-drenched compositions. Their sound sits at the intersection of psychedelic drift and heavy punishment — the kind of music that moves like molasses and hits like a wall. As a brand new band, they represent one of the freshest voices in the Midwest's heavy underground.
Nashville's Rintrah has been cultivating a heavy, psychedelic doom sound since 2014, drawing from both the serpentine riff traditions of stoner metal and the meditative weight of doom. Metal Archives classifies them under psychedelic doom and stoner rock, and that breadth is audible — their music tends toward atmospheric, slow-rolling explorations rather than blunt force. In a city dominated by country and roots music, they represent something darker and heavier bubbling beneath the surface.
Colossal Doom Metal out of Texas.
Rippikoulu is a doom/death metal band from Valkeakoski in southern Finland, active since 2014. Named after the Finnish word for 'confirmation school,' the band delivers crushing doom-death from the Pirkanmaa region.
Rise and Shine is a doom metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed around 2000. One of the elder statesmen of the Swedish doom scene, the band has been crafting heavy, slow-burning compositions for over two decades.
Death/doom metal band from Kraków, Poland, active since 2018. Named after the kabbalistic Tree of Knowledge concept, their approach merges death metal with doom from Poland's cultural capital.
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