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Featured Album
The Blind Leading The Blind (2018)
Featured Grindcore Album
Scum (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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German stoner/doom metal band formed in 2016. They blend blues-infused stoner grooves with doom metal's crushing weight.
London-based doom/sludge outfit active since 2024, dragging their compositions through a swamp of distortion, feedback, and crushing tempos. Their sound sits at the punishing intersection where doom metal's patience meets sludge's confrontational aggression.
Finnish doom/stoner metal band from Oulu, formed in 2010. They deliver tusked, heavy doom-stoner from the dark north of Finland.
Russian stoner/doom outfit active since 2021, 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.
Finnish sludge/doom metal band from Turku, formed in 2020. They craft murky sludge-doom from Finland's former capital.
Spanish death/doom metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2019. They craft crushing death-doom from the Catalan capital.
Atmospheric blackened doom metal project from Liege, Belgium, formed in 2021. Their pandemic-era demo recordings of tracks like "Walpurgisnacht" blend atmospheric black metal with doom's crushing weight, with an unusual reggae influence listed among their inspirations.
Liverpool-based doom/sludge outfit active since 2015, dragging their compositions through a swamp of distortion, feedback, and crushing tempos. Their sound sits at the punishing intersection where doom metal's patience meets sludge's confrontational aggression.
Doom/sludge metal act from Brighton, formed in 2021. Their music lurches forward with deliberate, oppressive weight, burying the listener beneath layers of corroded guitar tone.
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