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Funeral doom and black metal project from Portugal, active since 2015. Carma crafts glacially slow, oppressive doom with black metal atmospherics.
Hayward, California funeral doom solo project delivering crushingly slow, organ-tinged dirges in the Lovecraftian tradition, with a vicious yet mournful sonic weight.
New Jersey funeral doom solo project of Xathagorra Mlandroth, best known for the landmark 2006 album 'In the Depths of R'lyeh' — an hour-long immersion into Lovecraftian dread built on glacial tempos and cavernous death growls.
Cessation is a San Diego, California funeral doom metal band crafting extraordinarily slow, grief-laden compositions built on crushing low-end riffs and bleak, suffocating atmosphere. Their work sits at the extreme end of the doom spectrum, prioritizing heaviness and despair over accessibility.
Minneapolis, Minnesota funeral doom act Chalice of Suffering specialize in crushingly slow, grief-laden doom metal in the tradition of Skepticism and Mournful Congregation. Their songs are long, immersive, and built around an overwhelming sense of weight and despair.
Chaos Moon is a black metal project founded in Philadelphia by Alex Poole, blending raw black metal with doom and funeral doom influences into a sound of dense atmospheric despair. Active since the mid-2000s with breaks and reformations, their 2017 album Eschaton Mémoire is considered their most critically acclaimed work.
Funeral doom act from Norilsk, one of the world's most remote and polluted cities above the Arctic Circle, formed in 2019. Christmass channels the crushing despair of Arctic isolation through glacially slow funeral doom.
Long Beach, California's Cloven deal in funeral doom and sludge metal, building songs around glacially slow tempos and crushing heaviness. Active since 2015, they've released material through Midnite Collective, including their acclaimed full-length Blackened Wings.
Funeral doom metal band from Riihimaki, Finland, formed in 2015. They craft glacially slow, monumental doom steeped in Finnish darkness and despair.
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