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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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With Fang and Claw (2025)
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The Earls of Mars is a doom metal/psychedelic/progressive rock band from Hampshire, active since 2012. Their music blends the crushing weight of doom with psychedelic exploration and progressive structures, creating a cosmic and heavy sonic journey.
The Exilant from Wuppertal fuse gothic, doom, and death metal into a darkly atmospheric cocktail from the Bergisches Land, formed in 2025. Their multi-genre approach weaves romantic melancholy with crushing heaviness and death metal aggression.
The Fall of Mother Earth from Rennes craft doom and death metal with the ecological catastrophe their name demands since 2022. Their Breton capital base channels the tragedy of environmental collapse through crushing, apocalyptic compositions.
The Foreshadowing from Rome craft gothic and doom metal with the prophetic darkness their name demands since 2007. Nearly two decades of foreboding compositions from the Eternal City has established them as one of Italy's most respected gothic doom acts.
The Fumers is a heavy/doom metal/psychedelic rock band from Karlsruhe, Germany, formed in 2024. They blend doom metal's weight with psychedelic rock's mind-bending textures.
The Fërtility Cült is a psychedelic stoner/doom metal band from Tampere, Finland, active since 2010. They deliver mind-bending psychedelic doom with a ritualistic, cult-like aesthetic.
The Grand Black is a doom metal band from Seinäjoki, Finland, formed in 2011. They deliver crushing, monolithic doom from the Ostrobothnian plains.
Stoner and doom metal band from the lakeside town of Vevey, Switzerland. Their releases Beyond The Light and Demo 2020 channel fuzz-drenched riffs and heavy grooves rooted in the stoner rock tradition.
The Grief is a doom/gothic metal band from Cork, Ireland, formed in 2020. They create dark, emotionally heavy music that merges doom's crushing weight with gothic metal's atmospheric melancholy.
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