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Cheyenne, Wyoming funeral doom and sludge project. The name builds a dystopian religious hierarchy from one of America's least populated state capitals.
Aeolian Winds is a funeral doom and classical music project from New York City. Bridging the worlds of extreme metal and composed classical music, the project has released material ranging from piano compositions to glacial funeral doom, including the EP "Upon a Dead Horizon" and pieces written for solo piano.
Ailing is a funeral doom metal band from Chicago. Their 2013 full-length "Transient Passengers" delivers eight tracks of glacially slow, crushing funeral doom — the kind of music measured in geological time rather than minutes.
Florida death metal and funeral doom project. The Greek word for 'unclean' channels impurity through the Sunshine State's slowest, heaviest sounds.
Aldebaran is a funeral doom and sludge metal band from Portland, Oregon. Named after the red giant star, the band's two releases — including the 2008 full-length "...From Forgotten Tombs" — deliver the kind of glacial, earth-shaking heaviness that defines Portland's storied doom scene.
Grand Rapids, Michigan funeral doom project plumbing the absolute depths of slow, crushing heaviness. A 2024 promo signals an artist committed to the most glacially paced and emotionally devastating corner of doom metal.
Minnesota black metal and funeral doom project named after Ptolemy's astronomical treatise. Ancient stargazing rendered through the genre's slowest and coldest forms.
Seattle funeral doom practitioners crafting glacially paced devastation since 2008. Their split with IVES and the Winter Songs EP traffic in the genre's most patient extremes — music measured not in minutes but in geological time, fitting for the grey Pacific Northwest.
Minneapolis funeral doom project from the Minnesota underground.
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