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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Stoner doom act from Porto, formed in 2024. Their music moves at a glacial pace through layers of fuzz and psychedelic textures, inviting the listener into a trance-like state of heavy meditation.
Stoner doom act from Łódź, formed in 2021. Their music moves at a glacial pace through layers of fuzz and psychedelic textures, inviting the listener into a trance-like state of heavy meditation.
Black Priest is a Doom Metal band from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2019–2020 by vocalist Vinicius Libânia, bassist Gg Neto, guitarist Raphael Ribeiro, and drummer Phil Drigues. Rooted in the classic heavy sound of Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, the band expanded into original material exploring depression, anxiety, and horror themes. They released the EP “The Soul Scar” and followed it with the full-length album “Fatal” in March 2024, a nine-track record recorded at FK Studio in Niterói.
Black Pullet is a one-person Black/Doom Metal project from Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil, formed in 2023. The project released the EP “A Man of Sorrows” as a self-produced digital release, presenting a four-part work that shifts between depressive slow doom metal on the opening and closing tracks and raw atmospheric black metal in the middle, unified by an atmosphere of cold isolation and melancholy.
German doom/heavy metal band formed in 2020. They merge doom metal's slow, crushing weight with traditional heavy metal's riff-driven power.
German stoner/doom metal and rock band from Berlin, formed in 2016. They channel Eastern mysticism through heavy, fuzz-drenched stoner doom grooves.
German psychedelic rock and doom metal trio from Leipzig, active since 2011, featuring Uno Bruniusson of In Solitude and Grave Pleasures. Their Relapse Records debut Uncertainty is Bliss blends hard rock, doom, and psychedelia into intoxicating, transcendental compositions.
German sludge/drone/doom metal band from Mannheim, active since 2006. Known for their punishing wall of sound built from unrelenting riffs and tortured vocals, their 80-minute album Negative Black is described as brutal, creepy, and relentless -- the predecessor project to Bellrope.
Stoner/doom metal band from Guildford in Surrey, active since 2017. Their releases including the self-titled album and Resonate deliver low-and-slow heaviness from the southern English underground.
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