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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Funeral doom and death metal band from Belfast, active since 2010. Their 2010 release The Thousand Tombs of a Broken God delivers oppressive, glacially paced doom designed to crush under its own weight.
Doom and death metal band from Lokeren, Belgium, active since 2017. They combine the crushing weight of doom with death metal's ferocity for a slow, punishing assault.
German band from Wriezen, formed in 2008, whose sound evolved from doom/death metal origins toward a hard rock direction. Their stylistic shift reflects a journey from extreme metal heaviness to a more accessible sound.
German doom/sludge metal band from Mannheim, formed in 2019, rising from the ashes of Black Shape of Nexus. Their unconventional two-bass, one-guitar, drums lineup creates what they call 'the total absence of tonal sanity' -- crushing, psychedelic doom-sludge of massive proportions.
Doom metal outfit from Västra Götaland, formed in 2001. Their compositions stretch conventional structures to their limits, filling every measure with oppressive weight and deliberate, devastating momentum.
Doom metal outfit from Krasnoyarsk, formed in 2015. Their compositions stretch conventional structures to their limits, filling every measure with oppressive weight and deliberate, devastating momentum.
Spanish gothic/doom metal band from Burgos, formed in 2014. They craft dark, melancholic gothic doom metal from the medieval Castilian city.
Spanish stoner/doom metal band from El Bierzo in León province, formed in 2025. They channel devilish stoner-doom from the mountainous mining region of northwestern Spain.
Kielce-based stoner/doom duo conjuring instrumental haze since 2008, building monolithic riff structures that burrow deep into the skull. Their hypnotic, weed-soaked jams and prolific output have made them a cult favorite in the European stoner doom underground.
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