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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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Black-doom act from Norrköping, formed in 2018. Crows over Brávellir — referencing the legendary Viking battle of Brávellir — channels Norse themes through atmospheric extreme metal.
Doom-sludge metal band from Potsdam, Germany, active since 2006. With nearly two decades of crushing heaviness, Crowskin are veterans of the Brandenburg doom-sludge scene.
Doom metal band from London, formed in 2022. They craft slow, crushing doom from the English capital.
Doom and folk metal band from London, formed in 2023. They blend the crushing weight of doom with folk instrumentation and traditions.
Doom and stoner metal band from A Coruna, Spain, formed in 2019. They deliver thick, fuzz-laden doom with stoner grooves from the Galician coast.
Funeral doom metal band from Seville, Spain, formed in 2022. They craft glacially slow, oppressively heavy doom from the Andalusian capital.
Doom-sludge act from Moscow, active since 2013. Crypt Jaintor delivers crushing, slow-burning heaviness from the Russian capital.
Black-doom metal band from Liverpool, England, active since 2013. They merge the icy darkness of black metal with crushing doom from Merseyside.
Progressive death-doom band from Gomel, Belarus, formed in 2008. Their 2024 debut album Stargazer, praised by Metal Hammer UK and No Clean Singing as vast and astonishingly heavy, was completed posthumously from drafts left by founding songwriter Pavel.
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