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Oklahoma City's atmospheric sludge/funeral doom practitioners have been building slow, suffocating cathedrals of sound since 2014 — oppressively heavy, devastatingly patient, and steeped in the flatland desolation of the Great Plains.
Il Vuoto is a drone/funeral doom metal project from Piacenza, Italy, active since 2015 and crafting glacially slow, suffocating heaviness at the most oppressive tempos in extreme metal. The project plumbs the depths of despair through crushing, extended compositions.
Illusions Play is a symphonic funeral doom metal project from Istanbul, Turkey, active since 2014 and crafting glacially slow, suffocating heaviness at the most oppressive tempos in extreme metal. The project plumbs the depths of despair through crushing, extended compositions.
Imperceptum is an atmospheric black/funeral doom metal band from Bremen, Germany, active since 2016, merging the glacial pace of funeral doom with the frozen hostility of atmospheric black metal. The band creates vast, suffocating compositions from the Hanseatic city on the Weser.
In Lacrimaes et Dolor is a atmospheric funeral doom metal project from Macerata, Italy, active since 2012 and crafting glacially slow, suffocating heaviness at the most oppressive tempos in extreme metal. The project plumbs the depths of despair through crushing, extended compositions.
In Lugubre Tenebris is a funeral doom metal/drone, dungeon synth project from Cuneo, Italy, active since 2025 and crafting glacially slow, suffocating heaviness at the most oppressive tempos in extreme metal. The project plumbs the depths of despair through crushing, extended compositions.
Inanition is a funeral doom metal, ambient project from Gliwice, Poland, active since 2009 and crafting glacially slow, suffocating heaviness at the most oppressive tempos in extreme metal. The project plumbs the depths of despair through crushing, extended compositions.
Black/funeral doom metal band from France active since 2009. Their French name — meaning 'luminescent ineptitude' — adds surreal contradiction to their crushing extremity.
Inframonolithium is a funeral doom metal project from Erembodegem, Belgium, formed in 2017, self-described as "a cold journey into the realms of the hollow, shrieking nothing." Across releases like Mysterium, The Lightless, and Gods of Desolation, the band summons glacial riffs and abyssal atmospheres evoking black, gleaming monoliths as portals into the void.
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