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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Milwaukee's Slob Donovan have spent over a decade dragging drone, sludge, and doom metal into the slowest possible territory since their 2009 formation, producing music defined by cavernous low frequencies and suffocating tempo. They sit comfortably in the Wisconsin underground's tolerance for the willfully ugly and punishing.
Los Angeles sludge, drone, and doom metal band formed in 2020, specializing in oppressively heavy, low-frequency material at the extreme end of the California doom underground.
Sonic Prayer channel drone, doom, and stoner metal from Berlin, building meditative, heavy compositions that transform volume into spiritual experience. Formed in 2019, they bring transcendent heaviness to the capital's vast underground.
Derbyshire's Spore operate in the oppressive depths of doom and drone metal, creating glacially slow, monolithic soundscapes since 2019. Their music prioritizes texture and weight over melody or velocity.
Saint Petersburg's Stanubis merge sludge, drone, and doom metal from the cultural capital since 2016. Their Anubis-referencing name channels the Egyptian jackal-god of embalming into compositions of multi-layered, funereal weight.
Star Traveller is a US drone and doom metal project formed in 2018, exploring vast, slowly evolving sonic landscapes where minimalist drone textures merge with the glacial heaviness of doom metal.
Geneva, Illinois drone, doom, and sludge metal band formed in 2021, layering oppressive sonic weight across slow, cavernous compositions in the tradition of Midwestern heavy experimentalism.
Galway's Stonecarver shape doom and drone metal with the patience and precision of a sculptor since 2017. Their west-of-Ireland origins lend an Atlantic bleakness to their monolithic, slowly-evolving compositions.
Sunn O))) are one of the most influential drone/doom metal acts in the world, formed in Los Angeles in 2000 by Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson as a continuation and expansion of the Earth drone legacy. Their music consists of monolithic walls of heavily amplified guitar feedback and sub-bass rumble that blur the lines between metal, minimalist composition, and ritual sound art.
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