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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Roermond-based doom/sludge outfit active since 2009, dragging their compositions through a swamp of distortion, feedback, and crushing tempos. Their sound sits at the punishing intersection where doom metal's patience meets sludge's confrontational aggression.
Doom/sludge metal power trio from Exeter, formed in 2025, drawing from Crowbar, Eyehategod, Bolt Thrower, and Black Sabbath. Their early demos deliver crushing South West sludge with riffs that span the spectrum from classic doom to death metal weight.
Moscow-based funeral doom project active since 2016, stretching compositions to their absolute breaking point through glacial tempos and overwhelming sonic density. Their music moves with the slow inevitability of geological time.
Bitterdusk were born in Santiago in 1995 and have built a slow-burning catalog that blends melancholic doom metal with progressive and NWOBHM influences, all sung entirely in Spanish. Their discography spans five albums from the debut "Pantheon" (1997) through "Guardián del Valle" (2024), the latter released on a 300-copy vinyl pressing by Czech label Doomentia Records and recorded at AudioCustom Studios in Santiago.
German gothic/doom metal band formed in 2017. They merge gothic metal's dark atmosphere and melancholy with doom metal's crushing heaviness.
French sludge/doom metal band from Toulon on the Mediterranean, formed in 2013. They craft bizarre, reptilian sludge-doom from the Provençal coast.
Finnish doom metal band from Oulu, formed in 2017. They craft ritualistic doom metal from the dark north of Finland.
German ambient black/doom metal project from Hemer and later Dortmund, active since 2007. They layer ambient soundscapes over a black and doom metal foundation for an introspective, atmospheric experience.
German doom/gothic metal band from Delitzsch near Leipzig, formed in 2023. They merge doom metal's crushing weight with gothic metal's dark romanticism.
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