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Featured Album
Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Featured Grindcore Album
Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Doom and gothic metal band originally from Hamburg, now based in Freiburg, Germany, active since 2012. They craft melancholic, atmospheric doom infused with dark gothic beauty.
Doom and sludge metal band from Oxford, England, formed in 2016. They deliver crushing doom-sludge from the historic university city.
Doom metal act from Ravenna, formed in 2021. Cripta Blue — blending crypt imagery with blue melancholy — crafts slow, sorrowful doom from Emilia-Romagna.
Doom metal band from Detmold in the Teutoburg Forest, Germany, formed in 2015. They craft slow, crushing doom steeped in oppressive atmosphere.
Post-rock, sludge, and doom metal band from Morlanwelz, Belgium, formed in 2020. They weave expansive post-rock dynamics with the crushing heaviness of sludge and doom, creating a cinematic and emotionally charged sound.
Doom and heavy metal project from Poland, formed in 2021. CrossRoad crafts slow, heavy riffs with a traditional metal foundation.
Gothic doom act from Sarpsborg, southeastern Norway, active since 2002. Crowhead has spent over two decades crafting melancholic, atmospheric metal bridging gothic and doom traditions.
Melodic death-doom act from Kisvárda in northeastern Hungary, active since 2013. Crowhill Tales blends sorrowful melodies with crushing doom and death metal weight.
Progressive doom metal band from Maidstone, England, formed in 2015. They blend progressive complexity with crushing doom from the Garden of England.
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