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The Ukrainian city of Donetsk serves as headquarters for this doom metal and funeral doom metal operation, whose arsenal includes cavernous low-end and hypnotic repetition. Each riff lands like a monolith dropped from orbit.
Pennsylvania's Eidolon has been constructing funeral doom with the patience the subgenre demands since 1992, one of the longer-running practitioners of death in slow motion — a ghost form that refuses to dissipate.
Straddling the line between black metal and doom metal, this Polish actfrom Poznań fuses venomous shrieks over walls of distortion into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2016, and the compositions unfold with ritualistic patience and venomous intent.
Part of the island that birthed Sólstafir and Misthyrming, this act channels doom metal and funeral doom metal with a focus on tectonic grooves and sorrowful melodic passages. Formed in 2025, based in Reykjavík, the low end alone could register on seismographs.
Selfoss, Iceland — doom metal and funeral doom metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2023, they deal in earth-shaking distortion and mournful clean passages. Mournful melodies surface between waves of suffocating heaviness.
Stubbornly devoted to the riff, this doom metal, funeral doom metal, and stoner metal act from Sweden traffics in fuzz-drenched riffs and hypnotic, groove-laden repetition. Since 2016, they've built a catalog that reflects the Gothenburg school's homeland.
Doom and funeral doom metal project from Athens, Greece formed in 2021. They craft glacially slow, crushing doom from the ancient city.
Naples-based death metal, doom metal, and funeral doom metal act, active since 2006 delivering Type O Negative-school brooding grandeur with genuine emotional weight. Rooted in the Mediterranean peninsula's diverse metal ecosystem, uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Part of Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape, this act channels doom metal and funeral doom metal with a focus on glacial tempos and crushing, monolithic riffs. Formed in 2014, based in Perm, glacial tempos allow every note to resonate with maximum impact.
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