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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 Rybinsk in Yaroslavl Oblast, active since 2015. Cerebrium merges atmospheric black metal with doom pacing from the Volga River city.
Death-doom metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2022. They merge the crushing weight of doom with death metal aggression from the French capital.
Doom and gothic metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2014. They weave melancholic atmospheres and heavy, slow-burning riffs through a darkly romantic lens.
Black-doom project from Västmanland, formed in 2022. Cethegus — named after a Roman conspirator — merges atmospheric black metal with doom pacing.
Multi-genre extreme metal band from Piraeus/Athens, Greece, active since 2011. They weave together black metal, death metal, doom, and melodic elements into a despairing, ambitious sound.
Doom and gothic metal band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2010. They weave dark, melancholic atmospheres over crushing doom foundations from the Catalan capital.
Progressive doom metal band from Vantaa, Finland, formed in 2018. They blend progressive complexity with the crushing weight of doom.
Doom metal band from Michelstadt in the Odenwald forest, Germany, formed in 2015. They craft slow, crushing doom steeped in oppressive atmosphere from the forested hills of southern Hesse.
Doom and sludge metal trio from Neuchatel, Switzerland, formed in 2014 as a duet by Thierry and Arnaud. Their releases like Kind Of Savagery embody a stripped-down approach centered on crushing heaviness.
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