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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Funeral doom metal project from Sarajevo, Bosnia, conjuring glacially slow and crushing heaviness since 2017. Their two-album arc, I: Funeral of Mankind and II: The Last Judgment, traces a bleak apocalyptic narrative through monolithic doom compositions.
Edwardsville, Illinois death-thrashers Unburied have been plowing through the American underground since 2006, fusing the morbid heaviness of old-school death metal with the kinetic aggression of thrash. No-frills and consistently bruising.
Experimental drone and funeral doom project from Oxfordshire, England, named after the quantum physics concept, active since 2017. Their sound explores the slowest, heaviest extremes of metal through drone and funeral doom's monolithic compositions.
Funeral doom metal band from Recife, formed in 2020, featuring Axel on lead guitars and vocals, Márcia Raquel on lyric vocals and keyboards, Jhon Francis on bass, and Saulo Pereira on drums. The band released their self-titled debut album on April 20, 2022, a six-track recording on Bandcamp.
One-man sludge/drone/funeral doom project from Brasília, with all instruments performed and recorded by Maurício Caio, who also operates the bands Absent, Burial Temple, and Kurgan. The project released the pandemic-era compilation Deep Ecology on July 25, 2022, followed by the four-track EP Paradise Long Gone in 2025; lyrical themes focus on geological and ecological catastrophe rather than human experience.
Omaha, Nebraska's Undying Sorrow specialize in funeral doom metal — the genre's most extreme expression of grief and slowness — cultivating an atmosphere of crushing, funereal despair since 2021. For listeners who want their metal to feel like an actual eulogy.
Funeral doom metal and dark ambient project from Quattro Castella near Reggio Emilia, Italy. Their dual-faceted sound bridges funeral doom's glacial heaviness with dark ambient's meditative darkness.
Funeral doom and death metal project from Athens, Greece, emerging in 2024 with a sound that explores the most devastatingly slow extremes of doom. Their Athenian origin adds a Hellenic dimension to their crushing funeral doom compositions.
Prolific Belgian funeral doom project active since 2001, combining funeral doom with ambient and darkwave into a deeply atmospheric, sorrowful sound. Their extensive catalog of over fifteen releases, including Absence Of Life, Days Without Hope, and Diagenesis, spans more than two decades of unrelenting heaviness.
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