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Melodic doom and death metal band from Leeuwarden in Friesland, the Netherlands, active since 2016. Their sound blends the sorrowful melodies of doom with death metal's heaviness from the Frisian capital.
Unowned is an atmospheric doom/death metal band from Istanbul, Turkey, crafting slow, immersive compositions that draw comparisons to acts like Lycus and Konvent. Their 2014 track Two Rivers of Suffer offers over six minutes of down-tempo doom death.
Long-running English doom metal band from Bolton, active since 1993, centered on guitarist Kieron Tuohey and vocalist James Kilmurray. Their catalog spanning demos through the albums Under A Torn Sky and A Fire On The Sea documents over two decades of melodic doom metal evolution.
German black doom metal project created 'for the love of noise,' releasing their self-titled debut in December 2022 through Crawling Chaos Records. The five-track, 45-minute album blends blackened doom with post-metal elements, issued as a limited edition of 100 hand-screened CDs.
Funeral doom and death metal project from Athens, Greece, emerging in 2024 with a sound that explores the most devastatingly slow extremes of doom. Their Athenian origin adds a Hellenic dimension to their crushing funeral doom compositions.
Prolific Belgian funeral doom project active since 2001, combining funeral doom with ambient and darkwave into a deeply atmospheric, sorrowful sound. Their extensive catalog of over fifteen releases, including Absence Of Life, Days Without Hope, and Diagenesis, spans more than two decades of unrelenting heaviness.
Until My Funerals Began is a funeral doom metal project from Donetsk, Ukraine, crafting glacially slow, crushingly heavy compositions since 2015. The project delivers some of the most extreme doom metal from the conflict-affected Donbas region.
Untrop is a symphonic blackened death metal band from Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, formed in 2009, incorporating violin alongside powerful riffs and orchestration to create a dynamic dark atmosphere. Their releases include Iskra and Pale Illusions of Life, featuring lyrics in both Ukrainian and English.
Uoke is a one-man sludge/doom metal project from Chelyabinsk, Russia, self-described as 'doing filth singlehandedly' since 2021. The prolific project spans sludge, doom, brutal death metal, and hardcore across numerous releases including Nematode and a Crowbar cover.
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