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diorama (2024)
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Medium Rarities (2018)
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A sludge/doom metal outfit from New Orleans, Louisiana formed in 2017, drawing on the city's rich tradition of slow, crushing heavy music.
A Florida black/death metal act formed in 2017, contributing the track Metal of Death to the 2018 Tribute to Beherit compilation while pursuing aggressively dark occult and transgressive themes.
An Alabama heavy/doom/sludge metal outfit from the small town of Warrior, Barbarian Funeral surfaced in 2024 with a compilation track on Weedian's regional showcase Trip to Mississippi & Alabama.
Hailing from Everett, Washington, Barbarian Wasteland trades in the slow, haze-soaked intersection of doom and stoner metal, carving out a groove-oriented sound since 2019.
Fargo, North Dakota's Barnaby Jones deal in a blend of stoner, doom, and heavy metal, carrying on the mid-tempo, riff-heavy tradition of the genre from the Northern Plains underground since 2016.
Santa Rosa, California's Barren Altar combine black and doom metal with lyrical themes of anti-theological liturgy and apocalyptic death worship, operating since 2013 as a fixture of Northern California's underground extreme metal scene.
Chicago's Barren Heir have been cultivating a sound in the sludge and doom metal tradition since 2015, contributing to the city's robust underground heavy music community with a brooding, riff-driven approach.
New Jersey/New York stoner/doom metal band Barrow Downs — named after the haunted burial mounds of Tolkien's Middle-earth — have been grinding out heavy, haze-drenched riffs since 2020.
Buffalo's Bastard Lord occupy the hazy intersection of psychedelic and doom metal, bringing a narcotic heaviness rooted in the stoner doom tradition of the Buffalo underground.
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