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Funeral doom act from Moscow, active since 2006. Comatose Vigil is one of Russia's most renowned funeral doom bands, crafting glacially slow, sorrowful extremity over nearly two decades.
Austin, Texas's Communion inhabit the slowest, heaviest end of doom and drone, letting notes decay into cavernous silence and drone into near-silence before crushing you under their weight. Funeral doom spaciousness and stoner haze combine into something monolithic.
Kansas City doom and funeral doom band whose post-metal atmosphere stretches songs into vast, mournful landscapes. Their music moves with glacial patience and devastating emotional weight.
Funeral doom act from Rivne in northwestern Ukraine, formed in 2023. Course of Sunrise crafts glacially slow, sorrowful doom infused with black metal atmospherics from the Volyn region.
Funeral doom metal band from Seville, Spain, formed in 2022. They craft glacially slow, oppressively heavy doom from the Andalusian capital.
Long Island husband-and-wife duo Cult of Herodias craft deeply immersive funeral doom anchored by Kristina Rocco's sweeping classical vocals and suffocating, slow-motion arrangements. Active since 2012, the Holbrook outfit fuses experimental doom with a liturgical atmosphere that makes each release feel like a prolonged, mournful ceremony.
Funeral doom act from Lublin, eastern Poland, active since 2011. Czarna Rozpacz — Polish for 'black despair' — crafts glacially slow, sorrowful funeral doom from the Lublin underground.
Dartropia is a funeral doom/death metal project from the Grand Est region of eastern France, active since 2014 and crafting glacially paced compositions of immense weight and sorrow. Their sound belongs to metal's slowest subgenre, where each note hangs in the air like a requiem.
Daudaro is a funeral doom metal, drone, and dark ambient project from Reykjavik, Iceland, formed in 2021. The project explore the most extreme depths of slow, crushing heaviness and dark atmosphere.
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