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The Cold View is a German funeral doom metal project from Darmstadt, formed in 2012, with some claiming they play "the world's slowest funeral doom." Their extensive catalog — including "Weeping Winter," "Wires of Woe, Ways of Waste," and splits with Abysmal Growls of Despair — explores glacially paced, crushingly heavy doom.
The Drake Equation from Angers craft funeral doom metal named after the probabilistic formula for estimating extraterrestrial civilizations since 2013. Over a decade of cosmically-paced doom from the Maine-et-Loire capital, they have explored the universe's vast emptiness at a glacial tempo.
Symphonic/funeral doom metal from San Antonio.
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.
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