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Lycus formed in Oakland, California in 2008, operating in the most extreme end of the funeral doom spectrum while incorporating textures from black metal, noise, and shoegaze. Their debut LP Tempest (2013) featured three massive tracks ranging from ten to twenty minutes, drawing comparisons to Mournful Congregation and Asunder. The follow-up Chasms (2016), recorded at Atomic Garden Studios with producer Jack Shirley, distilled their approach into four immense compositions of deep, deliberate gloom.
Macabre Manifesto is a funeral doom and death metal band from Spain, formed in 2025. They craft crushing, glacially paced funeral doom layered with death metal brutality.
Madness Blues is a blackened funeral doom metal and drone band from Greece, formed in 2023. They craft crushing, glacially paced extremity at the intersection of funeral doom and drone.
Malasangre is a sludge, drone, and funeral doom metal band from Voghera, Italy, formed in 2019. Their Italian name meaning "bad blood" captures the suffocating heaviness of their drone-doom.
A solo funeral doom project by André Barroso, best known as the founder and former guitarist and synthesizer player of the northeastern death-doom outfit Lacryma Sanguine. Man of Sorrows carries forward a similarly desolate atmospheric sensibility, trading Lacryma Sanguine's death-inflected approach for the glacial tempos and smothering weight of funeral doom.
MDP is a black/funeral doom metal band from Ukraine, formed in 2023. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
Mental Torment is a death/funeral doom metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2013. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
San Diego's Messial have pursued one of the most demanding and desolate corners of extreme metal since 2014, merging funeral doom's vast, suffocating tempos with death metal's tonal brutality into music that operates at geological speed. Their approach requires the listener to surrender to duration and weight — each composition an extended descent into something cold, crushing, and without comfort.
Metatomb is a funeral doom metal/drone band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2025. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
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