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Rooted in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Shalem draw on the arid landscape of the Southwest in their blend of heavy, doom, and stoner metal — music built for wide-open spaces and the psychedelic heat of the high desert. Active since 2009, they bring a laid-back but weighty approach that mixes earthy riff-rock with the slow, lumbering pulse of doom.
One-man black metal project from São Paulo, started in 2003 and dormant for approximately two decades before returning in 2022. The project released a self-titled album on August 9, 2022 through Cianeto Discos, featuring six tracks including Hieroi Gamoi, Celestial Mystery of Eternal Luminosity, and Blue Mighty Heaven, along with a previously unreleased 2006 demo.
Birmingham, Alabama's Shallow Black emerged in 2022 playing sludge and doom metal that carries the tradition of Southern heavy music through a particularly thick and miserable lens. Their approach connects to the long lineage of Southeastern sludge, channeling slow-moving, pitch-black riffs with an uncompromising heaviness.
Meriden, Connecticut's Shallow Ground fuse progressive metal's structural ambition with thrash's velocity, producing music that shifts between intricate arrangements and full-throttle aggression since 2009. The band occupies a technical middle ground — too melodically adventurous for straight thrash, too aggressive for polished prog.
Moscow's Shallow Rivers pair death and doom metal from the Russian capital since 2009. Over fifteen years, their name of diminished waterways has yielded compositions that explore the drying channels of existence.
Doom and stoner metal band from São Paulo, formed in 2014, consisting of Gabriel Martinez on vocals, Gustavo Bueno on guitar, Allan Lordaro on bass, and Alexandre Dantas on drums. The band debuted with the EP Rising Sun on November 10, 2014, containing four tracks: Purple Fog, Forsaken, Black Witch, and Fading Moon.
Shallow Waters blend melodic, post-black, and doom metal from the Basque town of Arrasate-Mondragon, creating an atmospheric hybrid that draws from multiple dark genres. Formed in 2020, they bring Basque depth to the Spanish atmospheric metal scene.
Shalrath is an American solo or small-unit project operating in the crushing overlap of funeral doom, black metal, and death metal — a trio of extreme forms rarely fused with this much deliberate patience since the project's 2013 formation. Their sound moves at glacial tempos with a suffocating atmosphere drawn equally from the void-seeking qualities of each genre.
Olympia, Washington's Shalva take sludge metal into the Pacific Northwest's long tradition of atmospheric heaviness, playing music as grey and waterlogged as the region's winters since 2016. Their sound is dense and unrushed, with the kind of slow-burn weight that rewards patient listeners willing to sit inside the drone.
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