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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Chapters of Repugnance (Deluxe Reissue) (2018)
05/11 @ Three Links Deep Ellum, Dallas
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
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Heavy/doom metal band from Antwerp, Belgium, formed in 2022. They channel the monolithic weight of doom metal through crushing riffs and mournful atmospheres that reflect the genre's grand tradition.
Black/doom metal band from Gelsenkirchen, Germany, active since 2007. Nearly two decades of merging black metal's cold fury with doom metal's crushing weight from the Ruhr industrial heartland.
Hrmülja is a heavy/stoner/doom metal band from Ludbreg, Croatia, active since 2019 and delivering crushing, fuzz-laden heaviness where doom's oppressive weight meets stoner metal's hazy grooves. The project channels low-end power and psychedelic atmosphere.
Spawned in Bratislava's underground, this death/doom metal outfit channels slovak ferocity since 2023. Heavy, downtuned riffing and relentless percussion drive their compositions.
Melodic death metal outfit from Strasbourg in Alsace, active since 2013. Their Monegasque-inspired name adds character to compositions blending melodic death metal with the Franco-Germanic musical traditions of the Rhine borderlands.
Doom metal band from Tallinn, Estonia, active since 2010. Their name meaning 'Lost Souls,' they channel the crushing weight and melancholy of doom metal from the Baltic coast.
Sludge/doom metal band from Langenzenn, Germany, active since 2012. Their suffocating blend of sludge heaviness and doom metal weight delivers crushing compositions from the Franconian countryside.
Progressive doom/death metal band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, active since 2017. Their ambitious approach merges the crushing weight of doom-death with progressive complexity and dynamic shifts.
Emerging from Kristianstad's underground, this atmospheric doom/post-metal/rock act has been forging scorching sonic fury since 2014. Monolithic compositions and oppressive atmospheres define their crushing sound.
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