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Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Doom, drone, and sludge metal band from Helsinki, Finland active since 2012. They craft massive, low-frequency heaviness through drone-laden doom from the Finnish capital.
Doom, drone, and sludge metal project from Finland, active since 2013. They explore the heaviest, slowest extremes of metal through crushing drone-doom.
Exploring the depths of post-metal and sludge metal, this Polish outfit from Poznań has been refining their craft since 2023. Their sound hinges on Eyehategod-indebted misery channeled through crushing volume, delivered with unwavering intensity.
Sludge/stoner metal band from Požarevac in central Serbia, active since 2015. Their sound channels oppressive sludge weight and stoner grooves from the Braničevo district east of Belgrade.
Sludge metal band from Paris, France active since 2011. They bring crushing, down-tuned heaviness from the French capital.
Sludge and stoner metal band from Toulouse, France active since 2015. Named after the mythical bird of Persian legend, they deliver heavy, psychedelic-tinged riffs from the Pink City.
Bath-based doom metal and sludge metal act, active since 2017 delivering glacial, punishment-dealing grooves wallowing in distortion. Rooted in Britain's endlessly regenerating metal lineage, uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Drawing from Riga's musical fabric, this Latvian act forges Doom Metal, Funeral Doom Metal, and Post-Metal built on Eyehategod-indebted misery channeled through crushing volume. Their approach balances aggression with genuine musical substance.
Doom, sludge, and stoner metal band from Helsinki, Finland active since 2014. They bring fuzzy, heavy riffing and slow-burning heaviness from the Finnish capital.
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