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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Athens-based gothic/doom metal act active since 2020, pairing doom metal's crushing weight with dark romantic atmospheres and melancholic keyboard textures. Their compositions weave sorrowful melodies through a foundation of slow, heavy riffing.
German doom/stoner metal band from Leipzig, formed in 2014. They craft heavy, intoxicating doom and stoner metal from one of eastern Germany's liveliest metal cities.
Glasgow-based doom metal act active since 1996, crafting monolithic compositions built on slow-burning riffs and an atmosphere of pervasive heaviness. Their patient approach to songwriting lets each chord ring with crushing finality.
Stoner doom act from Catanzaro, formed in 2010. 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.
Birmingham-based project merging black metal's atmospheric bleakness with doom metal's crushing deliberation, active since 2003. Their compositions stretch between glacial tempos and frenzied tremolo passages, creating a dynamic tension between despair and fury.
Austin psychedelic doom — Muddy Waters sitting in with Mastodon.
German sludge/doom metal band from Münster, formed in 2021. They craft slow, crushing sludge-doom from the Westphalian lowlands.
London-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2012, conjuring thick clouds of fuzz-laden riffage and hypnotic, groove-driven compositions. Their sound channels the haze of 1970s proto-metal through a modern lens of distortion-worship and lysergic exploration.
Doom/sludge metal band from Beziers in southern France, formed in 2020. Their 2022 EP Prelude was recorded live and delivers extended, atmospheric compositions steeped in crushing heaviness, with more doom promised on the horizon.
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