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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Nihility (2002)
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Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Stoner doom act from Poznań, formed in 2011. Their music moves at a glacial pace through layers of fuzz and psychedelic textures, inviting the listener into a trance-like state of heavy meditation.
Roermond-based doom/sludge outfit active since 2009, dragging their compositions through a swamp of distortion, feedback, and crushing tempos. Their sound sits at the punishing intersection where doom metal's patience meets sludge's confrontational aggression.
Doom/sludge metal power trio from Exeter, formed in 2025, drawing from Crowbar, Eyehategod, Bolt Thrower, and Black Sabbath. Their early demos deliver crushing South West sludge with riffs that span the spectrum from classic doom to death metal weight.
Moscow-based funeral doom project active since 2016, stretching compositions to their absolute breaking point through glacial tempos and overwhelming sonic density. Their music moves with the slow inevitability of geological time.
German gothic/doom metal band formed in 2017. They merge gothic metal's dark atmosphere and melancholy with doom metal's crushing heaviness.
French sludge/doom metal band from Toulon on the Mediterranean, formed in 2013. They craft bizarre, reptilian sludge-doom from the Provençal coast.
Finnish doom metal band from Oulu, formed in 2017. They craft ritualistic doom metal from the dark north of Finland.
German ambient black/doom metal project from Hemer and later Dortmund, active since 2007. They layer ambient soundscapes over a black and doom metal foundation for an introspective, atmospheric experience.
German doom/gothic metal band from Delitzsch near Leipzig, formed in 2023. They merge doom metal's crushing weight with gothic metal's dark romanticism.
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