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Long Beach, California's Cloven deal in funeral doom and sludge metal, building songs around glacially slow tempos and crushing heaviness. Active since 2015, they've released material through Midnite Collective, including their acclaimed full-length Blackened Wings.
Funeral doom metal band from Riihimaki, Finland, formed in 2015. They craft glacially slow, monumental doom steeped in Finnish darkness and despair.
Funeral doom act from Moscow, active since 2006. Comatose Vigil is one of Russia's most renowned funeral doom bands, crafting glacially slow, sorrowful extremity over nearly two decades.
Austin, Texas's Communion inhabit the slowest, heaviest end of doom and drone, letting notes decay into cavernous silence and drone into near-silence before crushing you under their weight. Funeral doom spaciousness and stoner haze combine into something monolithic.
Kansas City doom and funeral doom band whose post-metal atmosphere stretches songs into vast, mournful landscapes. Their music moves with glacial patience and devastating emotional weight.
Funeral doom act from Rivne in northwestern Ukraine, formed in 2023. Course of Sunrise crafts glacially slow, sorrowful doom infused with black metal atmospherics from the Volyn region.
Funeral doom metal band from Seville, Spain, formed in 2022. They craft glacially slow, oppressively heavy doom from the Andalusian capital.
Long Island husband-and-wife duo Cult of Herodias craft deeply immersive funeral doom anchored by Kristina Rocco's sweeping classical vocals and suffocating, slow-motion arrangements. Active since 2012, the Holbrook outfit fuses experimental doom with a liturgical atmosphere that makes each release feel like a prolonged, mournful ceremony.
Funeral doom act from Lublin, eastern Poland, active since 2011. Czarna Rozpacz — Polish for 'black despair' — crafts glacially slow, sorrowful funeral doom from the Lublin underground.
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