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Butterflies (2025)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Sonic Brew 20th Anniversary Blend 5.99 - 5.19 (2019)
05/29 @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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A nascent doom and sludge outfit from Albany drawing on the slow, crushing weight of funeral doom paired with the corrosive grit of sludge, named after the legendary Arthurian dagger.
Columbia, SC doom and sludge act channeling the swampy, southern-tinged heaviness that the region breeds naturally, building slow-crawling riffs into dense, oppressive walls of sound with a mythology-laced edge.
Bellingham doom and stoner act riding the Pacific Northwest's deep tradition of heavy, haze-filled riffing, crafting slow-burning, psychedelic passages that emphasize tone and mood over velocity.
Denton doom and drone project born in 2025, weaving slow, hypnotic tones into extended meditations on weight and desolation.
Chicago band combining death metal's aggression with doom's suffocating slow tempos, crafting crushing, sepulchral compositions that dwell on weight and dread.
Cassius King traffic in slow, hazy heaviness out of Ramsey, NJ, combining doom's funeral weight with stoner rock's warm fuzz for a sound built on thick riffs and deliberate, oppressive pacing.
San Francisco's Castle deal in heavy, riff-forward doom with a traditional heavy metal backbone, favoring massive guitar tones and a bluesy, earth-shaking heaviness over experimental detours.
Minneapolis's Castle combine doom's slow, ritualistic tempos with sludge metal's distorted, feedback-laden aggression, crafting a sound that lurches forward under the weight of its own oppressive heaviness.
Brooklyn's Castle Rat play heavy, atmospheric doom with a dark, occult-tinged aesthetic, built around droning guitar work and vocals that carry a gothic, sepulchral weight.
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