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Viribus Unitis (2025)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Nihility (2002)
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Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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German blackened sludge/doom metal trio from Osnabrück, formed in 2016. Their self-described sound combines slow, devastating doom with blackened intensity, earning praise for its bleak, emotional heaviness across releases like their 2020 self-titled debut.
Finnish doom metal and death 'n' roll band from Tampere, formed in 2023. They combine doom metal's crushing weight with death 'n' roll's groovy swagger.
Stoner doom act from Forlì (Forlì-Cesena), formed in 2025. Their music moves at a glacial pace through layers of fuzz and psychedelic textures, inviting the listener into a trance-like state of heavy meditation.
Spanish sludge/doom metal band from Bilbao, formed in 2012. They craft crushing sludge-doom from the Basque industrial heartland.
Spanish stoner/doom metal band from Almería, formed in 2017. They craft sun-baked stoner-doom from the arid Mediterranean coast of southeastern Spain.
Groove/doom metal band from Tamworth in Staffordshire, formed in 2010. They bring crushing, slow-tempo heaviness paired with groove-driven rhythmic punch to the UK doom scene.
Finnish black/doom metal band from Kuopio, formed in 2016. They merge black metal darkness with doom metal's oppressive weight from the eastern Finnish lake country.
Oslo-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2013, conjuring thick clouds of fuzz-laden riffage and hypnotic, groove-driven compositions. Their sound channels the haze of 1970s proto-metal through a modern lens of distortion-worship and lysergic exploration.
Spanish black/doom metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2012. They wield a dark, sword-bearing blend of black and doom metal from the Catalan capital.
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