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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Death/doom outfit from the United Kingdom, formed in 2021. Their music inhabits the oppressive space where death metal's aggression meets doom's suffocating weight.
Post-metal quintet from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, blending alternative metal, grunge, and post-rock since 2015. Their 2020 concept album "Sun Worship Kingdom" features a guest appearance from Rosetta's Mike Armine and was mastered by James Plotkin.
German death/thrash/doom metal band from Krölpa in Thuringia, formed in 2016. They blend three heavy genres into a savage, multifaceted assault.
Finnish melodic doom/gothic metal band formed in 2023. They blend melodic doom with gothic metal's dark romanticism.
Nizhny Tagil-based death/doom metal act active since 2024, merging crushing heaviness with funereal tempos and mournful atmospheres. Their compositions unfold with deliberate patience, layering guttural vocals over glacially paced riffs that evoke profound desolation.
Athens-based gothic/doom metal act active since 2020, pairing doom metal's crushing weight with dark romantic atmospheres and melancholic keyboard textures. Their compositions weave sorrowful melodies through a foundation of slow, heavy riffing.
German doom/stoner metal band from Leipzig, formed in 2014. They craft heavy, intoxicating doom and stoner metal from one of eastern Germany's liveliest metal cities.
Glasgow-based doom metal act active since 1996, crafting monolithic compositions built on slow-burning riffs and an atmosphere of pervasive heaviness. Their patient approach to songwriting lets each chord ring with crushing finality.
Stoner doom act from Catanzaro, formed in 2010. 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.
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