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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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Malmö gothic/doom metal act formed in 2022, merging dark romance with crushing heaviness from Sweden's southernmost major city. Their sound explores the emotional territory where gothic atmospherics meet doom's ponderous weight.
Doom-sludge act from Moscow, active since 2010. Clarence Boddicker — named after the RoboCop villain — delivers crushing, law-breaking heaviness from the Russian capital.
Doom-stoner act from Moscow, formed in 2023. Clarity Vision delivers heavy, haze-drenched grooves from the Russian capital.
Doom-power-heavy metal band from Lazarevac near Belgrade, active since 2015. Claymorean — named after the Scottish claymore sword — blends epic doom with traditional power metal.
Doom and sludge metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2018. Named after a Game of Thrones character, they deliver crushing doom-sludge from the French capital.
Melodic death-doom metal band from Wolframs-Eschenbach, Germany, formed in 2023. They merge melancholic melodies with the crushing weight of death-doom from the Franconian heartland.
Experimental doom-groove metal band from Middlesbrough, England, formed in 2021. They push doom and groove metal boundaries through unconventional approaches.
Black-doom act from Kristiansand, southern Norway, formed in 2019. Cloth weaves bleak, atmospheric heaviness from the country's southern coast.
Doom metal band from Nantes, France, formed in 2016. They craft slow, crushing doom steeped in dark dementia from the Loire-Atlantique.
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