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Funeral doom metal band from Curitiba, Paraná, formed in 2020 with a lineup of Wagner Müller (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Daniel Kröker (bass), and Paulo Kolb (drums). Their debut album The Ultimate Sickness was released September 1, 2020 on Eclipsys Lunarys Productions, recorded at Avantgarde Studio in Curitiba, and includes a cover of Shape of Despair's "Fallen".
The Undergrave Experience is a funeral doom metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2011. They create glacially paced, crushingly heavy funeral doom with oppressive atmospheres and overwhelming sonic weight.
Thergothon is a funeral doom/death metal band from Kaarina, Finland, active since 1998. They are part of the legendary Finnish funeral doom tradition that helped define the subgenre.
Hailing from Pampa, Texas — a remote stretch of the Panhandle — This Noose... My Neck... practice funeral doom of the most desolate variety, stretching grief and isolation into glacially slow compositions that feel as vast as the surrounding plains.
Funeral doom metal band from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, with lyrical themes centered on Christianity. The band contributed the track "The Kiss" to the international compilation From the Nulll Void (2003, NULLL Records), which collected funeral doom acts from around the world.
Miami funeral doom act Tomb have been conjuring glacially slow, grief-saturated soundscapes since 2016, dwelling in the most oppressive end of the doom spectrum where tempo yields entirely to weight and atmosphere.
Hamilton, Ohio funeral doom outfit Torture Wheel have been grinding out some of the genre's most punishing slow-motion heaviness since 2005, favoring glacial tempos and suffocating atmospheres that put them squarely in the tradition of the genre's bleakest practitioners.
Tranqvillitas Maris specialize in the glacial extremes of funeral doom metal, stretching compositions into vast expanses of grief-laden slowness from their base in Luxembourg. Since 2016, the project's name — Latin for 'Sea of Tranquility' — has reflected the cosmic desolation embedded in their monolithic sound.
Transfiguration is a funeral doom metal band from Banagher, Ireland, formed in 2019. They create glacially paced, crushingly heavy funeral doom with extended compositions and overwhelming atmosphere.
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