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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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Doom metal band from Chelles, France. Witchorious crafts slow, heavy doom metal with an occult witchcraft aesthetic from the eastern suburbs of Paris.
Stoner and doom metal band from Milan, Italy formed in 2022. Witchsnake delivers heavy, riff-driven stoner doom from Italy's industrial and cultural powerhouse.
French doom band from Toulouse formed in 2011 with an extensive catalog spanning six releases including Swallow The Venom, Sang-Dragon, and Trove of Oddities at the Devil's Driveway. Their doom metal channels serpentine heaviness and occult darkness through crushing riffs and ominous atmospheres.
Heavy and doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland active since 2014. Witchtiger combines the power of classic heavy metal with the weight of doom in an occult-tinged assault from the Finnish capital.
Bay Shore, New York's Witchtripper have been plying their trade in stoner doom since 2016, bringing Long Island into a genre conversation usually dominated by the American South and West. Their sound is rooted in heavy psychedelic grooves and slow-burn riff cycles that reward cranking the volume in a dark room. They are a consistent presence in the New York-area underground heavy music world.
Doom and stoner metal project from England formed in 2013. With the Dead delivers crushing doom steeped in the heaviest traditions of British metal.
Nashville, Tennessee's Withdrawn formed in 2021 in the bleak overlap between doom, sludge, and death metal — a combination that turns the misery dial up considerably. Nashville is better known for country and Americana, which makes the emergence of a genuinely crushing doom/death act there all the more striking. Their sound is heavy in the way that feels earned rather than performed.
Witnesses blur the line between doom metal and ambient electronic music, weaving glacially slow, melodic heaviness with textural soundscapes that lend their songs an almost cinematic scale. Their NYC Bandcamp handle grounds them in that city's experimental underground, where genre orthodoxy has never been sacred. Formed in 2017, they're a rare act that can make a drone feel both crushing and eerily beautiful.
Portland's Wizard Cage arrived in 2023 with a sound rooted in the Pacific Northwest's fertile sludge and stoner metal underground, piling doom's funeral-pace heaviness onto a bed of fuzzed-out, psychedelic riff work. As one of the newer acts in Portland's sprawling heavy music scene, they're already embracing the slow, crushing aesthetic that the city has elevated into an art form. Their name captures the lysergic, occult-tinged darkness that runs through their music.
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