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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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Birmingham-based project merging black metal's atmospheric bleakness with doom metal's crushing deliberation, active since 2003. Their compositions stretch between glacial tempos and frenzied tremolo passages, creating a dynamic tension between despair and fury.
German sludge/doom metal band from Münster, formed in 2021. They craft slow, crushing sludge-doom from the Westphalian lowlands.
London-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2012, 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.
Doom/sludge metal band from Beziers in southern France, formed in 2020. Their 2022 EP Prelude was recorded live and delivers extended, atmospheric compositions steeped in crushing heaviness, with more doom promised on the horizon.
Melodic doom/death metal project from Gmünd, Austria, formed in 2018. They meld the sorrowful melodies of doom metal with death metal's guttural intensity.
German doom metal band from Freiburg im Breisgau, formed in 2019. Named after the legendary Harz mountain peak, they craft heavy, fog-laden doom metal from the Black Forest region.
Death/doom metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2024. They fuse death metal's aggression with doom's overwhelming weight.
Landgraaf-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2025, 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.
Bydgoszcz-based funeral doom project active since 2018, stretching compositions to their absolute breaking point through glacial tempos and overwhelming sonic density. Their music moves with the slow inevitability of geological time.
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