Originally from Chelyabinsk, Russia, and later relocated to Helsinki, Kauan plays cinematic post-metal that evokes languor and nostalgia through viola, choirs, slow piano melodies, and neoclassical arrangements. Their 2025 album Wayhome, a 50-minute composition in Dolby Atmos, represents their most ambitious work across a discography that evolved from folk and doom metal roots.

Melodic doom/death metal band from Hamina, active since 2012 with a name meaning "beautiful immortal" in Finnish. Their unique, recognizable sound expands doom metal's stereotypes by blending beautiful melancholic soundscapes with extreme-driven energy and energetic screams.

Sludge/doom metal band from the Baltic port city of Greifswald in northeastern Germany, formed in 2016 and delivering heavy, slow-burning compositions. Their sound carries the bleak, windswept atmosphere of the Mecklenburg coast.

Stoner doom metal group from Austria's Burgenland region, active since 2004 and delivering low-tuned, psychedelia-tinged heaviness. Their extended jams and fuzz-drenched riffs carry the slow-burning weight characteristic of the European stoner doom underground.

Stoner doom metal band from Lausanne, Switzerland, formed in 2016 and delivering fuzz-heavy, low-end-driven heaviness. Their live shows in the Swiss underground pair crushing riffs with slow-burning psychedelic intensity.

Oslo's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this doom metal and stoner metal unit is among them — wielding wah-soaked leads and bass-heavy grooves in the tradition of Kyuss and Sleep. Their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.

Doom/post-metal project from Alicante on Spain's Mediterranean coast, formed in 2024 and building heavy, atmospheric compositions. Their name's irreverent play on words belies a genuinely weighty approach to doom and post-metal.

Drone/doom/black/death metal project from Dusseldorf, formed in 2020 and pushing extreme metal into its most crushing, hypnotic territory. Their multi-genre approach spans the heaviest and most experimental reaches of metal.

Polish avant-garde metal, doom metal, and sludge metal act, active since 2018 delivering glacial, punishment-dealing grooves wallowing in distortion. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most formidable metal communities, uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.