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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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Doom-sludge-stoner act from Barcelos in northern Portugal, formed in 2025. Caos Ritual channels heavy, ritualistic riffs from the Minho region.
Progressive and doom metal act from the Danube city of Smederevo formed in 2017, merging the structural ambition of progressive metal with doom's crushing weight. Their sound balances cerebral complexity with the slow-burning power of heavy riffs.
Doom and drone metal project from Frankfurt, Germany, formed in 2014. They craft massive, slow-moving walls of sound that explore the heaviest extremes of low-tempo metal.
Doom metal band from Dresden, Germany, formed in 2018. They craft slow, heavy compositions steeped in melancholy and oppressive atmosphere from the Saxon capital.
Doom and stoner metal band from the Banbury/Bicester area of Oxfordshire, England, active since 2011. They deliver heavy, fuzz-laden doom-stoner from the English countryside.
Doom metal band from Bordeaux, France, formed in 2017. They craft slow, crushing doom from the Aquitaine capital.
Doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2006. With nearly two decades of crushing heaviness, Cardinals Folly are veterans of the Finnish doom underground.
Black-doom metal project from Helsinki, Finland. They merge the bleakness of black metal with the crushing weight of doom.
Death-doom act from Ljubljana, Slovenia, formed in 2020. Carestia — Italian for 'famine' — merges crushing death metal with funereal doom.
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