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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Straddling the line between doom metal and drone metal, this Latvian act fuses glacial, punishment-dealing grooves wallowing in distortion into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2021, and uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Orlando thrash metal project from the Florida underground.
Black metal and drone act from A Coruna in Galicia, northwestern Spain, merging raw black metal with sustained, hypnotic drone textures since 2013. Their approach creates an immersive, radiating darkness from Spain's Atlantic coast.
Black/drone/doom metal act from the ancient city of Worms, Germany, fusing three of heavy music's most oppressive subgenres since 2010. Their name, ironically meaning "empathy" in German, contrasts with the crushing, misanthropic weight of their sound.
Nebraska's Endless Bummer smears drone, sludge, and doom into a suffocating slow-motion dirge that feels as flat and relentless as the Great Plains themselves. Formed in 2013, their music is the sound of existential weight given a distortion pedal.
Doom, drone, and sludge metal band from Bordeaux, France formed in 2016, affiliated with Dry Cough Records and several other labels. Their six-release catalog includes Circle the Gold and the split with Uur, delivering crushing heaviness from southwestern France.
Rock Springs, Wyoming's Enord Khan crafts expansive drone and doom metal from one of the most isolated corners of the American West, translating vast empty landscapes into suffocating, hypnotic low-frequency ritual.
Avant-garde doom, drone, and post-metal project from Finland launched in 2025. They push boundaries across multiple heavy subgenres with an experimental, boundary-dissolving approach.
Doom and drone metal project from Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France formed in 2023. They craft massive, slow-burning heaviness from southwestern France.
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