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Birmingham stoner/doom metal project formed in 2012, featuring vocals by Oliwia Sobieszek and music composed by Paul Kenney. Their six-album catalog includes Living Water, Altars, and the final release Necromancer, praised for its "sensual ambience" and otherworldly vocal performances before the band disbanded.
Doom/death metal band from Copenhagen, formed in 2018 and crafting slow, crushing compositions that pair doom's monumental weight with death metal's guttural intensity. Their sound represents the heavier end of the Copenhagen metal underground.
Moscow doom/death metal act formed in 2019, delivering bilingual Russian-English compositions with titles like Ordeal/Тяжёлые шаги and Breath of Winter/Дыхание зимы. Their approach blends doom metal's crushing weight with death metal's guttural intensity across introspective, winter-themed material.
Swedish doom metal and heavy metal act, active since 2025 delivering Sabbathian worship filtered through decades of underground evolution. Rooted in Sweden's legendary metal infrastructure, patience is rewarded with crushing, cathartic payoffs.
Bergen's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this doom metal unit is among them — wielding Sabbathian worship filtered through decades of underground evolution. Patience is rewarded with crushing, cathartic payoffs.
Black/doom metal project from Hanover, formed in 2016 and merging black metal's cold fury with doom's crushing weight. Their dual-genre approach creates a uniquely oppressive and atmospheric heaviness.
Death/doom metal band from Helsinki, active since 2011 and delivering crushing, cavernous heaviness. Their name's deliberate misspelling of "crypts" signals the subterranean, tomb-like atmosphere of their death-doom.
Active in Stockholm since 2019, this Swedish act forges Doom Metal and Sludge Metal built on Eyehategod-indebted misery channeled through crushing volume. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Trading in pure metallic intensity, this doom metal act from Venice traffics in glacial tempos and crushing, monolithic riffs. Since 2013, they've built a catalog that reflects Italy's underrated but thriving metal community.
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