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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Knoxville's Sign of the Sorcerer trade in hazy psychedelic doom and stoner metal, blending lysergic riffs with slow, heavy grooves in a style rooted in the occult and classic fuzz worship since 2019.
Flemington, New Jersey's Silence in the Grey have been crafting slow, heavy doom metal since 2013, building on the genre's foundational principles of weight, atmosphere, and an unyielding sense of dread.
Portland, Oregon doom metal act Silence the Father draw from the city's rich history of heavy, atmospheric music, channeling slow tempos and grief-laden atmosphere into their brand of traditional doom since 2014.
Gothic doom metal band from Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, founded in 1994 — one of the first Brazilian bands in the genre to feature female vocals. The group built a substantial discography across the following decades, including Dance of Shadows (2002), Darklife (2005), Hypnosis (2017), and TERRA (2022), and performed as support for Epica, After Forever, and Evergrey at Brazilian festivals.
Hailing from Venus, Texas, Silent Deep Ocean arrived in 2024 with a sound rooted in the slow suffocation of doom and the cold grandeur of gothic metal, building a world of dense atmosphere somewhere between grief and subterranean dread.
Silent Stream of Godless Elegy are Czech folk/doom metal pioneers from Hranice, blending authentic Moravian folk traditions with crushing doom since 1995. Their nine-album catalog, including works like "Smutnice" and "Navaz," channels ancient Slavic melancholy through heavy instrumentation in a way that few bands have replicated.
Silent Tower fuses black metal's bleakness with doom metal's crushing weight from the Provencal town of Martigues, formed in 2024. Their Mediterranean origins add an unusual geographic context to an otherwise Northern European-influenced sonic palette.
Athens, Georgia's Silent Vigil formed in 2024 with a sound anchored in melodic doom/death metal — heavy, grief-saturated riffs underpinned by a genuine sense of melody that gives their darkness a beauty it might otherwise lack.
Silent Void crafts melodic doom/death metal from somewhere within France, their exact location kept deliberately obscure since their 2019 formation. Their compositions pair mournful clean melodies with guttural death metal vocals over glacially paced arrangements.
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