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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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Hierophante is a doom metal/drone act from Lille, France, active since 2014 and channeling monolithic heaviness through its doom metal framework. The project delivers oppressive, glacially paced compositions.
Higher Council of Mars is a doom/drone/post-metal band from Blackpool, England, formed in 2007. They blend doom metal's crushing weight with post-metal's atmospheric dynamics.
Doom/drone/sludge metal band from Madrid, Spain, active since 2010. Their suffocating blend of drone, doom, and sludge creates an overwhelming wall of sound from the Spanish capital.
Hirveä is a drone/doom metal act from Finland, active since 2017 and channeling monolithic heaviness through its doom metal framework. The project delivers oppressive, glacially paced compositions.
Hjarnidaudi is a drone/funeral doom metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2006. They craft glacially paced funeral doom of devastating heaviness.
Death metal and grindcore act from Helsinki, active since 2018. Their visceral name matches a sound that blends death metal's heaviness with grindcore's blasting brevity from Finland's capital.
Death metal outfit from the southeastern Finnish town of Hamina near the Russian border, active since 2015. Their Finnish-language name adds local character to old-school death metal from the borderlands.
I the Witch is a drone/doom/sludge metal act from Lazio, Italy, active since 2017 and channeling monolithic heaviness through its doom metal framework. The project delivers oppressive, glacially paced compositions.
Ignis is a black/drone/doom metal act from Yekaterinburg, Russia, active since 2013 and merging black metal's cold intensity with doom's suffocating weight. The project inhabits the darkest intersection of both genres.
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