An Austrian doom/drone/sludge metal outfit operating under the name Unholy Tabernakel, the band craft slow, crushing compositions that draw from the heaviest end of the drone and sludge traditions. They remain an independent, underground act with a limited but dedicated following in the European heavy music scene.

Teetheater is a doom/drone metal project from Cork, Ireland, formed in 2018. They create slow, crushing sonic landscapes that merge doom's weight with drone's hypnotic, sustained intensity.

Teleost is a stoner/drone/doom metal band from York, formed in 2022. Named after the largest group of bony fishes, their music plumbs the depths of low-end heaviness through droning, glacially-paced doom with stoner metal's fuzz-laden warmth.

The Cold View is a German funeral doom metal project from Darmstadt, formed in 2012, with some claiming they play "the world's slowest funeral doom." Their extensive catalog — including "Weeping Winter," "Wires of Woe, Ways of Waste," and splits with Abysmal Growls of Despair — explores glacially paced, crushingly heavy doom.

The Haunting Green from Italy craft doom, post-metal, and drone exploring the eerie beauty of overgrown, abandoned spaces since 2014. A decade of verdant, spectral compositions channels nature reclaiming the built world.

The Pledge of Cain from Strasbourg deliver drone, doom, and sludge metal with the biblical weight of the first murderer's oath since 2008. Nearly two decades of crushing, Cain-cursed heaviness from the Alsatian capital has produced some of eastern France's most oppressive metal.

The Puritan is a drone/doom metal band from Lohja, Finland, formed in 2018. They deliver glacially paced, hypnotic drone doom.

The Wright Valley Trio from Wiesbaden explore the extreme edges of heaviness through sludge, drone, doom, and post-metal, their Antarctic-referencing name evoking the desolate expanse of their sound since 2015. As a trio, they maintain a raw, stripped-down approach to maximalist heaviness.

Thedus from Parma craft doom, drone, and sludge metal exploring the most oppressive sonic depths since 2019. Their Emilian base — capital of prosciutto and Parmesan — provides ironic culinary contrast to their suffocating heaviness.