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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)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Death-doom-sludge band from Trier, Germany, formed in 2021. They layer death metal aggression over crushing doom and sludge foundations from Germany's oldest city.
Doom metal band from Chemnitz, Germany, active since 2007. With nearly two decades of activity, Coldun are veterans of the Saxon doom underground.
Death-doom metal band from Gottingen, Germany. They merge the oppressive weight of doom with death metal aggression from the Lower Saxon university city.
Doom-sludge act from Bologna, formed in 2020. Collars layers crushing, low-end heaviness over plodding sludge tempos from Emilia-Romagna.
Gothic progressive doom act from Sovetskaya Gavan on Russia's Pacific coast, formed in 2019. Collider merges dark atmospherics with progressive complexity from one of the Far East's most remote port cities.
Death-doom and gothic metal band from Ostrava, Czech Republic, formed in 2014. They layer melancholic gothic atmospheres over crushing death-doom foundations, creating a dark and emotionally resonant sound.
Funeral doom metal band from Riihimaki, Finland, formed in 2015. They craft glacially slow, monumental doom steeped in Finnish darkness and despair.
Doom and post-metal band from Karlsruhe, Germany, formed in 2023. They blend the crushing weight of doom with the expansive dynamics of post-metal.
Doom and sludge metal band from Liverpool, England, active since 2013. Coltsblood craft crushing, filthy doom-sludge from the Merseyside underground.
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