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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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Sludge and stoner doom band from Minsk, Belarus, active since 2009. Their discography, from the raw livedemo 2011 through the sprawling instrumental album Doomsdays (2015), showcases a heavy, psychedelic approach to low-and-slow riffing.
Death-doom metal band from Volos in Thessaly, Greece, formed in 2021. They merge death metal aggression with doom weight from the Greek coastal city.
Death-doom act from the Netherlands, formed in 2017. Coffin Lurker merges crushing death metal with funereal doom pacing.
Doom metal act from Lisbon, formed in 2018. Cold and Grey crafts slow, sorrowful doom reflecting the moodier side of the Atlantic capital.
Doom metal band from Lubeck, Germany, active since 1999. With over a quarter century of activity, Cold Embrace are among the most enduring doom acts in northern Germany.
Genre-spanning band from London, active since 2009. Cold in Berlin blend death metal, doom, gothic, and stoner influences into a dark, theatrical sound.
Death-doom metal band from Paris, France, active since 2013. They merge the crushing weight of doom with death metal aggression from the French capital.
Doom-sludge act from Kyiv, formed in 2017. Cold Shell delivers crushing, oppressive heaviness from the Ukrainian capital.
Doom metal act from Olbia, Sardinia, active since 2013. ColdShade delivers slow, sorrowful doom from the Mediterranean island.
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