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Featured Album
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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Black-death-doom metal band from Scotland, emerging in 2026. They blend three extreme metal genres into a dark, wounding assault.
Gothic black doom act from Milan, one of Italy's veteran extreme metal bands with origins in 1995. Cultus Sanguine — Latin for 'cult of blood' — has spent three decades crafting dark, atmospheric metal that bridges gothic, black, and doom traditions.
Doom-sludge-stoner metal band from Cannes on the French Riviera, formed in 2023. They deliver thick, cannabis-tinged doom-sludge from the glamorous Cote d'Azur.
Doom metal band from Hesse, Germany, active since 1991. With over three decades of history, Curven are among the most enduring doom acts in Germany.
Death-doom-sludge act from Reykjavík, active since 2017. CXVIII delivers crushing, slow-burning heaviness that draws on Iceland's tradition of atmospheric extreme metal.
Doom-heavy-thrash act from Porto, active since 2016. Cycles blends crushing doom with heavy and thrash metal elements from northern Portugal.
Blackened death-doom act from Działdowo in northern Masuria, formed in 2021. Cyrograf — Polish for 'pact with the devil' — merges dark subgenres from the rural north.
Funeral doom act from Lublin, eastern Poland, active since 2011. Czarna Rozpacz — Polish for 'black despair' — crafts glacially slow, sorrowful funeral doom from the Lublin underground.
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