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Medium Rarities (2018)
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New Jersey doom/death/thrash metal band from Monmouth County, folding all three of heavy metal's most crushing strains into a single sound since 2017.
Indianapolis black/death/doom metal band formed in 2020, navigating the suffocating overlap of three of extreme metal's darkest subgenres.
A short-lived Philadelphia death/doom project, Call of Pripyat channeled sorrow, bleakness, and apocalyptic dread into crushing compositions before splitting up in 2022.
San Diego's Call of the Wild blend heavy, doom, and stoner metal with hard rock into a thick, riff-driven sound that has been rolling since 2020.
Allentown, Pennsylvania's Call Off Dead traffic in doom and sludge metal, stacking slow, oppressive riffs into a dense wall of sound since 2019.
Chicago instrumental stoner/doom duo Camel Heavy let their riffs do the talking, crafting wordless, hypnotic heaviness within the fuzzed-out tradition since 2015.
Instrumental doom — debut is two tracks spanning 38 minutes, mastered by Proscriptor McGovern of Absu. Follow-up is a single 37-minute track.
Virginia doom metal outfit trudging through slow, heavy territory since the late 1990s, carrying on the tradition of funeral-paced riffing and desolate atmospherics.
New Orleans doom and stoner metal outfit active from 2017 before splitting up, drawing from the Crescent City's deep well of heavy, swampy riff traditions.
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