When Et Mortuus Est in Luce emerged in 2014 from Moscow, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal and doom metal — all raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.

Naples, Italy — doom metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2019, they deal in funeral-paced heaviness dripping with existential dread. Their compositions unfold like tectonic shifts — slow, inevitable, devastating.

Death/doom metal band from Stoke-on-Trent, England. They deliver mournful, crushing death doom from the Potteries.

The Russian city of Kaluga serves as headquarters for this death metal and doom metal operation, whose arsenal includes Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.

Psychedelic stoner and progressive doom metal act from Bretten in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, crafting expansive, mind-bending compositions since 2017. Their approach fuses the hazy psychedelia of stoner metal with the structural ambition of progressive doom.

Part of Hungary's underappreciated metal tradition, this act channels doom metal with a focus on tectonic grooves and sorrowful melodic passages. Formed in 2002, based in Budapest, the low end alone could register on seismographs.

Part of Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape, this act channels black metal, doom metal, and funeral doom metal with a focus on icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Formed in 2008, based in Moscow, their sound honors the second wave while forging its own path.

Wrocław, Poland — doom metal and sludge metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2019, they deal in Southern-fried heaviness with hardcore punk's confrontational energy. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.

Melodic death/doom metal act from Brussels, Belgium, weaving sorrowful melodies into crushing, slow-burning compositions since 2019. Their dual-genre approach balances the harmonic beauty of melodic death metal with doom's oppressive emotional weight.