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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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Blackened doom metal project from Norway's Møre og Romsdal county, formed in 2024. Their approach merges black metal's hostility with doom metal's crushing weight from the fjord country.
Black/doom metal band from Catalão, Goiás, founded on September 13, 2024, with all lyrics written in Portuguese and themes drawn from occultism, melancholia, and classical literature. The band released the EP O Sexto Círculo in 2025.
Formed in 2024 out of Nashville (listed under Georgia), Rituaal operate at the bleak intersection of black, death, and doom metal — a combination that trades speed for suffocating dread. Their multi-genre approach suggests a band more interested in atmosphere and weight than genre purity. Still early in their existence, they carry the ambition of a project with a clear sonic vision from the start.
Ritual Blood is a doom metal project from Germany, formed in 2021. The project channels slow, crushing doom metal with ritualistic overtones from the German underground.
Seattle's Ritual Cairn carve out a grim and deliberate space where black metal's cold malevolence meets doom's crushing pace, formed in 2020 in a city whose grey skies and rain-soaked winters suit the genre perfectly. Their name — a cairn being a mound of stones marking a sacred or funerary site — signals an interest in weight, memory, and place. The black/doom hybrid they work with rewards patience, building tension rather than releasing it.
Philadelphia's Ritual Earth blend stoner metal's fuzz-soaked groove with doom's crushing weight, a combination that trades in the psychedelic rather than the horrific. Since 2018 they've been developing a sound rooted in Electric Wizard territory while carrying the grittiness of a band forged in a city that doesn't romanticize its edges. The Philly underground gives them a scrappy foundation that keeps the stoner haze from drifting too far into self-indulgence.
Stoner/doom metal band from Perm, Russia, active since 2017. Their psychedelic name accompanies hazy, crushing stoner doom from the Ural city.
Ritual Mist is a doom metal band from Turku in southwestern Finland, active since 2012. The band delivers slow, atmospheric doom metal from Finland's oldest city.
Odesa psychedelic doom/stoner metal act formed in 2018, merging trippy sonic explorations with crushing heaviness from Ukraine's Black Sea coast. Their genre-spanning approach channels both psychedelia's vision and doom's oppressive weight.
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