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Voidian is a doom/sludge/post-metal band from Limburg in Flanders, Belgium, formed in 2019 and described as spitting out "droning psychedelic dream sequences" over massive doom and sludge foundations. Their 2020 debut album "Through Eyes of the Flame" spans five tracks over 49 minutes, released on limited vinyl pressings through DUNK!PRESSINGS.
Voidkush is a black/death/doom metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2018. They merge the crushing weight of doom with black and death metal's ferocity for a triple-threat of heaviness.
Voidlung surfaced in Loveland, Colorado in 2024 playing doom metal that suits its Rocky Mountain surroundings — expansive, oxygen-thin, and unhurried in a way that suggests vast empty space rather than claustrophobia. Their sound wallows in the slow-riff tradition without being derivative, finding room for texture and dynamics within the crush. A promising new entry in a state with a strong underground doom pedigree.
Voidlurker is a sludge/stoner/doom metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2018. They deliver massive, low-end-heavy sludge and stoner doom from the cradle of heavy metal.
Voidripper is a stoner/doom metal band from Oberhausen, Germany, formed in 2026. They play crushing, riff-heavy stoner doom from the Ruhr Valley.
Bryan, Texas's Voidslime have been at it since 2017, building a catalog rooted in psychedelic doom metal — slow, narcotic riffs dissolving into lysergic haze before recongealing into something crushingly heavy. The psychedelic element isn't decorative; it fundamentally warps the doom formula, introducing detours into droning, meditative passages that make the eventual heaviness land harder. One of the more distinctive voices in the Texas heavy underground.
This Pennsylvania Voidwalker operates in the slow, funereal intersection of doom and death metal — music that moves like cold tar and carries the same melancholic weight as the best work in that tradition. Formed in 2020, their doom/death approach leans into desolation rather than pure heaviness, using the death metal elements to add menace to the grief rather than overwhelm it. A different project sharing a name with their Madison counterparts, but operating in a fully distinct emotional register.
Chicago's Voimaton — the Finnish word for "powerless" or "exhausted" — have been dragging the death/doom template through Midwestern gloom since 2019, their name telegraphing exactly the emotional terrain they work. The death metal elements provide structural heaviness while the doom underpinning slows everything to a dirge-like crawl, creating music that feels genuinely burdened. In a city with a strong experimental metal history, they occupy the darker end of its underground with conviction.
Volkmort is a death/doom metal band from Timbó, Santa Catarina, Brazil, channeling extreme and dark sounds rooted in the band members' desire to externalize intense personal experiences. Their 2023 album Fallen in the Bloody Field, released through Black Hole Productions, stands as their most recent full-length, featuring tracks like "Doomology of War" and "Triumphus Mortis."
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