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Post-hardcore and sludge/post-metal band from Lausanne, Switzerland, signed to Pelagic Records and known for dense, slow-burning compositions that blend doom, black metal, and post-rock dynamics. Their 2025 album "IDSUNGWÜSSÄ" has been described by fans as part of a conceptual trilogy, built around existential themes and a suffocating sonic intensity.
Abramakabra has explored the crushing intersection of drone, doom, and sludge metal from Milan since 2016. Their name, a variation on the mystic formula, channels ritualistic repetition through glacially slow, monolithic heaviness.
Abrams is a sludge and post-metal band from Denver, Colorado. Since their 2014 debut EP "February," the band has released three full-lengths of massive, emotionally charged heaviness, with their sound evolving from raw sludge into expansive post-metal territory across a decade-plus career.
Absent in Body is a Belgian post-metal supergroup formed in 2017 by Amenra guitarist Mathieu Vandekerckhove and vocalist Colin H. van Eeckhout alongside Neurosis vocalist Scott Kelly and former Sepultura drummer Iggor Cavalera. Their debut album Plague God, released in 2022 on Season of Mist, melds post-metal, drone, sludge, and EBM into five sprawling compositions that draw on each member's history in confrontational, ceremony-driven heavy music. The project is deliberately collaborative and sparse, functioning as a slow-moving, ritualistic extension of the members' respective primary bands.
A doom and sludge metal band from Bamberg, Germany, Absent/Minded have been crafting dense, slow-burning heaviness since 2015. Their sound merges the crushing weight of sludge with the mournful deliberation of doom, reflecting the Franconian city's quiet intensity.
Abysm channels sludge metal's low-end punishment from Cork since 2020, drawing from the city's tradition of heavy, uncompromising music. Their cavernous sound reflects the depth implied by their name, wallowing in slow-motion devastation.
Abysmal Rites conjures doom and sludge metal from Tampere since 2022, channeling the weight of Finland's heaviest traditions into ritualistic compositions. Their approach to the low-and-slow end of the spectrum draws from the region's deep doom metal legacy.
Ab·est are a post-metal band from Göttingen, Germany, signed to Moment of Collapse Records, who have been building a substantial catalog since 2012. With releases spanning from their Demo MMXII through Molten Husk and Into a Mirrored Hall, they craft dense, layered post-metal that has earned them a dedicated following in the European underground.
Accabadora creates doom and sludge metal from the Netherlands as of 2026, sharing the Sardinian death-figure name with an Italian black metal act. Their Dutch interpretation of this traditional euthanasia figure brings crushing, deliberately paced heaviness.
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