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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Gothic blackened death metal act from the Bergen suburb of Hjellestad, formed in 2023. Claymords blends dark atmospherics with extreme metal from western Norway.
Gothic and progressive metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2017. They weave dark gothic atmospheres into progressive metal structures.
Cloak formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 2013, founded by Scott Taysom and Sean Bruneau as a reaction to what they saw as a lack of dark, dangerous heavy music in the local scene. Signed to Season of Mist and later Metal Blade Records, the band combines traditional heavy metal structures with black metal atmospherics, black and roll energy, and gothic rock mood, citing Dissection, Deep Purple, and Fields of the Nephilim as core influences. Their third album Black Flame Eternal appeared in 2023.
Seattle's Cofgod blend doom, gothic metal, and stoner metal into heavy, atmospheric journeys that balance introspection with crushing weight, draped in the grey Pacific Northwest gloom.
Minneapolis's Cold Colours fuse death metal's brutality with gothic metal's mournful atmosphere, producing a sound that is both punishing and laced with a melancholic, darkly romantic quality.
Gothic metal band from Gladenbach, Germany, formed in 2015. They weave melancholic atmospheres and dark beauty into a heavy, emotionally resonant sound.
Genre-spanning band from London, active since 2009. Cold in Berlin blend death metal, doom, gothic, and stoner influences into a dark, theatrical sound.
Gothic metal band from the Hauts-de-France region, active since 2002. They weave dark, melancholic atmospheres into a heavy metal framework from northern France.
Gothic progressive doom act from Sovetskaya Gavan on Russia's Pacific coast, formed in 2019. Collider merges dark atmospherics with progressive complexity from one of the Far East's most remote port cities.
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