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Infinite Terror (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Glasgow-based sludge/post-metal outfit active since 2016, building dynamic compositions that oscillate between abrasive sludge riffing and atmospheric expanses. Their music trades in tension and release, alternating quiet passages with crushing walls of distortion.
Motala-based sludge/post-metal outfit active since 2018, building dynamic compositions that oscillate between abrasive sludge riffing and atmospheric expanses. Their music trades in tension and release, alternating quiet passages with crushing walls of distortion.
Spanish band from Barcelona, formed in 2016, whose sound evolved from post-metal and rock toward progressive sludge/doom/post-metal. Their expanding sonic palette reflects a deepening commitment to heaviness and complexity.
Post-metal quintet from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, blending alternative metal, grunge, and post-rock since 2015. Their 2020 concept album "Sun Worship Kingdom" features a guest appearance from Rosetta's Mike Armine and was mastered by James Plotkin.
Milan-based post-doom outfit active since 2023, building dynamic compositions that arc between quiet introspection and crushing, distortion-soaked climaxes. Their patient approach to heavy music rewards the listener with cathartic crescendos born from extended tension.
Doom and post-metal outfit from Paris, formed in 2019. Their demo material signals a sound built on crushing slow tempos and expansive, layered heaviness characteristic of the French post-metal scene.
Post-metal band from Lausanne, Switzerland, formed in 2025. Named after one of Switzerland's coldest villages, they explore atmospheric post-metal soundscapes.
Baone (Padua)-based progressive/post-metal act active since 2011, building dynamic compositions that traverse atmospherics and crushing heaviness through extended, narrative-driven structures. Their patient songwriting rewards the listener with cathartic builds.
Finnish death/post-metal band from Tampere, formed in 2025. They merge death metal intensity with post-metal's atmospheric breadth.
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