Moscow-based black/doom metal band with releases including Dissolved In The Abyss, Spirit Of Plague, and Temple Pestis, the latter released through Daemon Worship Productions. Their sound merges black metal's blasting ferocity with doom metal's crushing weight and pestilent atmospherics.

When Kotiomkin emerged in 2014 from Martinsicuro (Teramo), they brought with them a sound rooted in doom metal, progressive metal, and stoner metal — all genre-bending ambition that refuses easy categorization. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.

Opole, Poland — doom metal and stoner metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2011, they deal in desert-baked tonality and psychedelic haze over lumbering rhythms. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.

Stoner/doom metal band from Greenock on Scotland's Clyde coast, formed in 2020 and named with a nod to German industrial aesthetics. Their sound merges stoner metal's groove-driven fuzz with doom's ponderous heaviness.

Experimental black/doom metal project from Finland, active since 2008 and pushing extreme metal into unconventional territory. Their name referencing both the mythological sea monster and a dual rulership system captures their ambitious, dual-natured approach.

Viennese "pagan desert doom" outfit merging heavy fuzz sounds with folklore since 2016, with releases including the albums Ouroboros and Odyssea. Their sound rides the line between stoner rock's sun-baked grooves and doom metal's crushing weight.

Doom/death metal band from Scotland, active since 2016 and dwelling at the heavy intersection of funeral-paced doom and death metal's guttural intensity. Their sound combines crushing slowness with death metal's brutal vocal and rhythmic approach.

Funeral doom metal/ambient project from the Baltic island of Usedom, active since 2011 and crafting glacially slow, cosmic compositions. Their seaside isolation and cosmic scope produce some of the most meditative heavy music in the German underground.

Psychedelic doom/heavy metal/hard rock band from the Kymi-Poitsila area, formed in 2021 and blending retro doom with trippy, mind-expanding elements. Their skull-themed name captures the death-obsessed psychedelia at the heart of their sound.