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Iron Warthog is a German drone/doom metal project formed in 2022, exploring the most minimal and hypnotic extremes of heavy music. The band builds immense, sustained tones that vibrate at the lowest frequencies of the doom spectrum.
Metal band from Vantaa that has evolved from black/doom metal origins into drone/doom territory, active since 2020. Their sound explores the heaviest, most repetitive side of doom metal.
Ivy Crescent is a sludge metal, drone band from Brighton, United Kingdom, active since 2022 and delivering crushing, suffocating heaviness from the low end. The project channels the abrasive, punishing weight of sludge metal.
Jagannah was an experimental comedy/psychedelic doom band from Modena, Italy, active from 2006 to 2011 and self-described as having come from space, played for space, and gone to space. Their album Aneha Hi How (2017) features nine tracks blending Melvins-influenced doom with surreal humor and absurdist performance.
Jesu is the acclaimed project of Justin K Broadrick, founder of industrial metal pioneers Godflesh, blending dreampop, ambient, shoegaze, and metal since 2003. Based in the UK, the project has released a vast catalogue including Heart Ache, Terminus, and Every Day I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came, redefining the boundaries between heaviness and ethereal beauty.
Athens, Georgia duo Jucifer are notorious for hauling one of the largest live speaker walls in underground metal and deploying it to devastating effect, channeling sludge, doom, drone, and punk into a wall-of-sound assault that defies easy categorization. Active since 2006, they remain one of the most extreme live acts in American heavy music.
Experimental drone, sludge, and doom metal project from Saint Petersburg, formed on the ruins of the band Cenobite as a tandem of two guitarists exploring the depths of consciousness. Their 2024 album Maledictum Iter incorporates saxophone, horns, and industrial elements alongside crushing guitars, described as 'a soundtrack to a journey into the darkest corners of the mind.'
Stoner/drone/doom metal band from Copenhagen, formed in 2016 and named after the Icelandic word for a volcanic eruption. Their sound layers stoner grooves over drone-like foundations with doom metal's crushing heaviness.
Part of Holland's dense concentration of metal talent, this act channels black metal and drone metal with a focus on icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Formed in 2013, based in North Holland, their sound honors the second wave while forging its own path.
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