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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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Sleepforest craft doom and groove metal from Madrid, building heavy compositions that evoke wandering through darkened woodland. Active since 2018, they bring forest-dwelling heaviness to the Spanish capital's doom scene.
Sleeping Gods craft doom, death, and gothic metal from Kassel, weaving dark romantic atmospheres through crushing heaviness and deep growls. Their Hessian base provides a fitting backdrop for music that explores the space between slumber and divinity.
Reykjavik's Slor channel doom and sludge metal with glacial patience since 2023. Their Icelandic setting, surrounded by actual glaciers and volcanic landscapes, naturally informs their crushing, elemental heaviness.
Slow Green Thing deliver stoner/doom metal and hard rock from Dresden, building hazy, verdant compositions that match their organic name. Active since 2014, they bring psychedelic heaviness to Saxony's Elbe Valley.
Slowenya channel sludge and doom metal from Turku, building heavy, deliberate compositions from southwestern Finland. Formed in 2021, they bring Slovenian-named slowness to the Finnish doom/sludge scene.
Slowmotion Downpour deliver melodic doom/death metal from Jyvaskyla, their evocative name perfectly capturing the gradual, drenching heaviness of their compositions. Active since 2011, they bring lakeland melancholy to the Finnish doom/death tradition.
Slug Lord reign over doom and stoner metal from Tampere, building riff-heavy, glacially paced compositions worthy of their gastropod royalty. Active since 2011, they bring slug-monarch heaviness to the Pirkanmaa stoner/doom scene.
Slugphlegm deliver doom and sludge metal from Tampere, combining slug-like pacing with phlegmatic thickness. Formed in 2024, they bring mucous-weighted heaviness to the Pirkanmaa doom scene.
Jonkoping's Sluka have been merging death, doom, and sludge metal from the Smaland lakeside city since 2001. A quarter-century from the shores of Lake Vattern, their Swedish name meaning "to swallow" has produced one of the region's most enduring extreme acts.
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