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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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SoulSteal craft atmospheric doom/death metal from Nicosia, layering melancholic melodies over crushing, slow-tempo heaviness. Active since 2009, they bring Mediterranean atmosphere to the death/doom tradition.
Soundedge craft death and doom metal from the Galician port of A Coruna, building heavy compositions from Spain's Atlantic northwest. Formed in 2020, they bring edge-of-the-world heaviness to the Galician metal scene.
Falun's Space Dwarves deliver doom metal from the Dalarna capital since 2024. Their absurdist name combining cosmic scale with diminutive beings channels the comedy of universal smallness into compositions of freshly-minted heaviness.
Dnipro's Space Sugar pair doom and stoner metal from the central Ukrainian metropolis since 2012. Over a decade from the Dnieper River city, their cosmic-sweetness name has channeled the saccharine vastness of space into compositions of fuzz-laden heaviness.
Spacefog pair stoner and doom metal from Sweden's Vastra Gotaland region since 2012. Over a decade of channeling their cosmic-haze name into compositions of thick, nebulously heavy stoner doom from western Sweden.
Kyiv's Spacemessiah pair stoner and doom metal from the Ukrainian capital since 2020. Their cosmic-savior name channels the divine intervention of the universe into compositions of riff-heavy, fuzz-driven worship.
Spancer have been channeling sludge and doom metal from Brunswick since 2001, making them one of Lower Saxony's longest-running sludge/doom acts. Their quarter-century of activity represents a sustained commitment to crushing, slow-motion heaviness.
London's Spectral Darkwave occupy a rare intersection of death, doom, and symphonic metal, creating dramatic compositions that balance aggression with orchestral grandeur. Since 2015, they have cultivated an ornate and darkly theatrical sound.
Spectrum Mortis deal in death/doom metal from Madrid, exploring the full spectrum of mortality through crushing, deliberate compositions. Active since 2016, they bring philosophical heaviness to the Spanish capital's extreme scene.
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