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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Featured Sludge Metal Album
De Doorn (2021)
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Doom and stoner metal band from the Alpine foothills of San Giovanni Bianco in Bergamo province, formed in 2021. Cancervo conjures heavy, mountainous riffs from the Brembana Valley.
Doom metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2016. They craft slow, crushing doom steeped in heavy atmospheres from the Catalan capital.
Black doom act from Rotterdam, active since 2014. CandleGoat merges occult black metal atmospheres with plodding doom pacing.
Legendary Swedish doom metal band from Stockholm, with Bandcamp activity since 2012 but a legacy stretching back to 1984. Candlemass is one of the most influential doom metal acts in history, essentially defining the epic doom subgenre.
Doom-sludge project from Portugal, formed in 2018. Canens Carcer — Latin roughly meaning 'singing prison' — delivers crushing, oppressive heaviness.
Death-doom act from Gdańsk on the Baltic coast, formed in 2024. Canis Majoris — named after the constellation containing the Dog Star — channels cosmic doom from Poland's northern port city.
Gothic folk-doom act from Naberezhnye Chelny in Tatarstan, active since 2014. Canonis blends folk melodies with gothic doom from the industrial city on the Kama River.
Doom and black metal band from Geel, Belgium, formed in 2014. They merge the crushing weight and glacial pace of doom metal with the cold ferocity of black metal into a bleak, oppressive sound.
Doom-stoner band from Kampen in Overijssel, formed in 2024. Canyon Company delivers lumbering, fuzz-laden grooves from the Dutch heartland.
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