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Mourners is a funeral doom metal band from Timișoara, Romania, formed in 2017. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
Salt Lake City's Mournful Incarnation specialize in funeral doom of the bleakest kind — cavernous, nearly motionless compositions that stretch grief into something vast and suffocating, born from the silence of the Utah desert.
mu:d is a funeral doom/black metal band from Pistoia, Italy, formed in 2021. They fuse black metal's cold fury with doom's crushing weight.
MÜL is a funeral doom metal band from Bergen, Norway, formed in 2001. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
Nathr is a black/doom/funeral doom metal band from Trondheim, Norway, formed in 2021. They plumb the darkest depths of doom from this central Norwegian city.
Nauthik is a funeral doom metal project from Cologne, active since 2017. The project delivers some of the slowest, most crushing metal to emerge from the Rhineland's cultural capital.
Necromantic Lights is a funeral doom metal project from Hyvinkaa, active since 2016. The project crafts glacially paced funeral doom from the southern Finnish town.
Funeral doom metal duo from Helsinki, Finland — Sami Rautio and Jürgen Fröhling — formed in 2020 with releases including We Were Always Alone and Take the Step. Their glacially paced funeral doom explores themes of isolation and existential despair.
Funeral doom metal band from Warsaw, Poland, active since 2014. Their glacially paced compositions deliver crushing, slow-motion heaviness from the Polish capital.
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