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Infinite Terror (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Stoner/Doom Metal/Rock outfit rooted in Ferrara, channeling savage underground intensity since 2018. Glacial compositions unfold with crushing weight, exploring despair and transcendence.
Drawing from Santa Venera's metal heritage, this stoner/doom metal outfit channels fierce energy since 2023. Glacial compositions unfold with crushing weight, exploring despair and transcendence.
Sludge/doom metal band from Roeselare, Belgium, formed in 2021. Their crushing low-end and oppressive atmosphere draw from the heaviest traditions of sludge and doom, delivering punishment from the West Flemish underground.
An established sludge/drone/doom metal voice from Budapest, contributing to Hungary's underground since 2015. Their work explores the genre's darkest corners through immense heaviness.
Herbicidal is a stoner/doom metal band from Bristol, United Kingdom, 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.
Herds is a black/death/doom metal band from Yorkshire, England, formed in 2009. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
HereLiesIdio is a black/doom metal act from United Kingdom, active since 2025 and merging black metal's cold intensity with doom's suffocating weight. The project inhabits the darkest intersection of both genres.
An established stoner/sludge/doom metal voice from Helsinki, contributing to Finland's underground since 2008. Slow, deliberate riffing and suffocating atmospheres form the foundation of their craft.
An established heavy/doom metal/rock voice from Ratkovo, contributing to Serbia's underground since 2015. Their compositions celebrate the timeless formula of powerful riffs and soaring melodies.
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