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Eschatology of War (2021)
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Big Ship Little Ship / Bassline Junkie (2020)
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No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
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German doom/black metal band from Darmstadt, formed in 2020. They merge doom metal's crushing slow tempos with black metal's atmospheric malevolence.
Rome-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2015, 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.
Death/doom outfit from Setúbal, formed in 1998. Their music inhabits the oppressive space where death metal's aggression meets doom's suffocating weight.
Doom metal outfit from Bodø, formed in 2024. Their compositions stretch conventional structures to their limits, filling every measure with oppressive weight and deliberate, devastating momentum.
Barnaul-based project merging black metal's atmospheric bleakness with doom metal's crushing deliberation, active since 2020. Their compositions stretch between glacial tempos and frenzied tremolo passages, creating a dynamic tension between despair and fury.
German drone and funeral doom metal project from Bad Homburg, formed in 2024. They specialize in the slowest, most crushing end of doom, layering droning guitar textures over glacial funeral doom tempos.
Gothenburg-based doom metal act active since 2011, 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.
Finnish doom metal project formed in 2025. Named after the Norse well of wisdom, they deliver slow, crushing doom metal.
Funeral doom and death metal band from Belfast, active since 2010. Their 2010 release The Thousand Tombs of a Broken God delivers oppressive, glacially paced doom designed to crush under its own weight.
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