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Formalist is a sludge/drone/doom metal supergroup from Piacenza, Italy, formed in 2014 by members of Forgotten Tomb, Malasangre, and Viscera///. Their releases We Inherit a World at the Seams and No One Will Shine Anymore aim to 'open new gates to total sonic horrors,' combining the heaviest elements of their parent bands into crushing experimental doom.
Fregoli Delusion is a drone/funeral doom metal project from Vilnius, Lithuania, formed in 2021 and named after the rare psychiatric condition in which the sufferer believes different people are a single person in disguise. Their output trades in the slowest, most oppressive extremes of doom metal — glacial drones and suffocating funeral doom.
FRIG is an avant-garde/drone/industrial metal project from Bucharest, Romania, formed in 2017. Their Romanian name — meaning 'cold' — matches the frigid, experimental character of their drone and industrial metal from the Romanian capital.
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Frozen Ocean is an atmospheric black metal and ambient/drone/electronic project from Moscow, active since 2010. Their genre-spanning approach merges atmospheric black metal with electronic production and ambient textures, creating a hybrid that defies conventional classification.
Baltimore's Gain Stages, active since 2020, occupy the slow, suffocating overlap between drone and doom — music built on sustained frequencies and the almost physical pressure of amplified silence.
Galg is a depressive black/doom metal/drone project from Nijmegen, formed in 2014. Their Dutch name — meaning 'gallows' — captures the bleak, execution-themed character of their extreme music.
Ganjubatronic is a sludge/drone/doom metal band from Warsaw, formed in 2023. They deliver crushing, slow-motion heaviness from the Polish capital.
Gedale is a sludge and drone metal act from Trutnov, Czech Republic, formed in 2017, whose debut Depot Rehearsal (2017) is a single monolithic track stretching nearly thirty minutes of crawling, oppressive heaviness. The project captures a live, unpolished approach to drone-laden sludge.
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