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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Chapters of Repugnance (Deluxe Reissue) (2018)
05/11 @ Three Links Deep Ellum, Dallas
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
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Atmospheric black metal and doom act from Piacenza, active since 2014. Chiral crafts expansive, contemplative extreme metal that bridges the atmospheric and doom traditions.
Black and doom metal act from Sion in the Valais canton of Switzerland, formed in 2014. They fuse the icy bleakness of black metal with the crushing weight of doom, drawing on the stark Alpine landscape of their homeland.
Doom metal band from Frydlant nad Ostravici, Czech Republic, formed in 2018. Their name meaning cold in Czech, Chlad channels icy desolation through crushing, slow-tempo doom.
Gothic doom act from Kalmar on the Baltic coast, formed in 2024. Chord of Souls crafts dark, emotionally rich metal from southeastern Sweden.
Death-doom metal band from Ptolemaida in western Macedonia, Greece, formed in 2023. They merge death metal aggression with crushing doom from the Greek mining region.
Death-doom act from Elbląg on Poland's Baltic coast, active since 2015. Christ's Flesh merges crushing death metal with plodding doom pacing.
Funeral doom act from Norilsk, one of the world's most remote and polluted cities above the Arctic Circle, formed in 2019. Christmass channels the crushing despair of Arctic isolation through glacially slow funeral doom.
Death-doom-deathcore band from Perpignan near the Spanish border, France, active since 2013. They blend death metal, doom, and deathcore from the Catalan-French borderlands.
Lovecraft-inspired sludge and doom metal project formed in 2017, channeling cosmic horror through crushing sonic weight and oppressive atmospherics. Their eldritch thematic focus matches a sound designed to evoke existential dread.
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