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Black metal band from Paris, France, emerging in 2025. They craft cryptic, atmospheric black metal from the French capital.
Death metal band from Blackpool, England, formed in 2024. They deliver crushing death metal from the Lancashire coast.
Doom-sludge act from Moscow, active since 2013. Crypt Jaintor delivers crushing, slow-burning heaviness from the Russian capital.
Black-doom metal band from Liverpool, England, active since 2013. They merge the icy darkness of black metal with crushing doom from Merseyside.
Progressive death-doom band from Gomel, Belarus, formed in 2008. Their 2024 debut album Stargazer, praised by Metal Hammer UK and No Clean Singing as vast and astonishingly heavy, was completed posthumously from drafts left by founding songwriter Pavel.
Death-doom act from Ivano-Frankivsk in the Carpathian foothills of western Ukraine, active since 2014. Crypt of Silence merges crushing death metal with doom pacing from the Prykarpattia region.
Doom and stoner metal band from Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2019. They deliver thick, occult-tinged doom with fuzz-drenched stoner grooves.
Experimental death metal act from the Netherlands, formed in 2017. Cryptae has gained recognition for their abrasive, avant-garde approach to death metal that pushes beyond conventional boundaries.
Death/doom metal band from Klagenfurt, Austria, formed in 2021, featuring Benjamin Helfer on guitar and vocals alongside Daniel Schober, Simon Matweber, and David Matweber. Their 2024 self-titled debut EP spans funeral doom, death metal, and sludge with a 'Stay Death' ethos.
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