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Infinite Terror (2024)
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With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Stoner/doom metal band from Perm, Russia, active since 2017. Their psychedelic name accompanies hazy, crushing stoner doom from the Ural city.
Ritual Mist is a doom metal band from Turku in southwestern Finland, active since 2012. The band delivers slow, atmospheric doom metal from Finland's oldest city.
Odesa psychedelic doom/stoner metal act formed in 2018, merging trippy sonic explorations with crushing heaviness from Ukraine's Black Sea coast. Their genre-spanning approach channels both psychedelia's vision and doom's oppressive weight.
Sludge/doom metal band from Portugal, formed in 2020. Their Dutch-styled name, meaning 'rituals,' accompanies crushing heaviness.
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Sludge/doom metal band from Italy, active since 2013. Their approach delivers crushing heaviness at the intersection of sludge and doom.
Vienna-based retro-doom quartet formed in 2018 — the name a German-language pun on RoboCop — RoboKopf plays heavy psych and proto-metal in the tradition of early 1970s doom and heavy rock. Their debut The Echoes of Owls, released on Heavy Psych Sounds Records, combines down-tuned twin guitars, jazzy drumming, distorted bass, and theremin textures with lyrics exploring violence, art, and love.
Doom metal band from Tilburg, the Netherlands, active since 2015. Named after the sci-fi B-movie creature, their approach delivers crushing doom from the Roadburn festival city.
RodtGod is a sludge/doom metal band from Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, formed in 2020. The band delivers crushing low-end heaviness from the Swabian industrial metropolis.
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