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Kingsport black metal project from the Tennessee underground.
Boulder Creek black metal project from the California underground.
Oakland funeral doom band whose glacially slow, devastatingly heavy sound helped define the Bay Area's doom underground, delivering crushing emotional weight across vast, sprawling compositions.
New York funeral doom project with two releases since 2007. Displaced and Uncharted and the earlier Obelisk demo deliver glacially paced heaviness — funeral doom at its most patient and punishing.
Baltimore black metal and funeral doom project with four releases since 2016. Named after a cheap solvent inhaled by Romanian street children, their music channels that same desperate, impoverished atmosphere through the bleakest extremes of heavy music.
Bleak Transcendence is a funeral doom/death metal trio from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, formed in 2023 by Alexandre Antunes, Michael Siegwarth, and Wagner Müller. The band released their debut album "Mortuanima" in May 2025, a 48-minute work fusing the ferocious intensity of death metal with hauntingly slow funeral doom, enriched by synths, violins, and ethereal textures conveying desolation and introspection.
Orlando thrash metal project from the Florida underground.
HellLight is a funeral doom/death metal trio from São Paulo, Brazil, comprising Fabio de Paula (guitar, vocals, keyboards), Robson Silva (drums), and Alexandre Vida (bass). The band has released a substantial catalog including "No God Above, No Devil Below" (2013) and "Journey Through Endless Storms" (2015), the latter earning praise for its balance of atmospheric keyboards, death growls, and melodic guitar work. Their eighth full-length album, "We, The Dead", was released in 2025 on Meuse Music Records.
Mortiferik is a one-man funeral doom project built around the bleakest end of the death/doom spectrum, drawing on the suffocating pace and crushing despair of the genre's key forebears. The project released the "Empire of Sadness Returns" EP and appeared on the "Doomed Serenades" Brazilian doom compilation, marking it as a committed voice in the country's underground doom scene.
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