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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Nihility (2002)
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Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Reykjavik's Slor channel doom and sludge metal with glacial patience since 2023. Their Icelandic setting, surrounded by actual glaciers and volcanic landscapes, naturally informs their crushing, elemental heaviness.
Slow Fall craft progressive melodic death metal from the northern Finnish city of Oulu, building intricate compositions that descend in slow motion. Formed in 2020, they bring Arctic progressive depth to the Finnish melodeath scene.
Slow Green Thing deliver stoner/doom metal and hard rock from Dresden, building hazy, verdant compositions that match their organic name. Active since 2014, they bring psychedelic heaviness to Saxony's Elbe Valley.
Slowburn deliver heavy metal from Madrid, channeling the slow-building intensity their name describes through powerful compositions. Formed in 2020, they bring gradually intensifying metal to the Spanish capital.
Slowenya channel sludge and doom metal from Turku, building heavy, deliberate compositions from southwestern Finland. Formed in 2021, they bring Slovenian-named slowness to the Finnish doom/sludge scene.
Boden's Slowgate have evolved from heavy/thrash metal to groove metal/metalcore from the Norrbotten garrison city since 2023. Their measured-passage name channels the deliberate pace of restricted entry into compositions of military-town intensity.
Slowjoint deliver sludge metal from southern Denmark, building tar-thick compositions with the deliberate, heavy pace their name implies. Active since 2012, they bring crushing slowness to the Syddanmark region.
Slowmotion Downpour deliver melodic doom/death metal from Jyvaskyla, their evocative name perfectly capturing the gradual, drenching heaviness of their compositions. Active since 2011, they bring lakeland melancholy to the Finnish doom/death tradition.
Slug Lord reign over doom and stoner metal from Tampere, building riff-heavy, glacially paced compositions worthy of their gastropod royalty. Active since 2011, they bring slug-monarch heaviness to the Pirkanmaa stoner/doom scene.
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