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Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Blood Dynasty (24-bit HD audio) (2024)
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New York City doom metal project whose 2010 releases — Split in Two and The Ruins at Dusk — establish an early foundation of crushing, atmospheric heaviness. Named after the Gnostic rulers of the material world.
Rhode Island doom metal project whose releases Exist for Nothing... and the live recording To Live and To Die channel existential despair through crushing heaviness. The name — combining passion and death — captures doom metal's essential tension.
Connecticut doom collaboration featuring veteran musicians exploring the heavier side of progressive rock and traditional doom, delivering patient, emotionally rich compositions with decades of experience behind them.
Nevada doom and drone metal project with six releases since 2012. Their catalog — including the evocatively titled Echoes Beyond the Ruins ov Rust and Razors — trades in the slowest, heaviest frequencies the desert state can produce.
Wilmington, North Carolina doom and post-metal project whose 2024 EP Thalassophobia explores the fear of deep water through crushing, atmospheric heaviness. Coastal Carolina dread rendered in slow, suffocating riffs.
Chicago doom act crafting oppressively heavy slowcore from the Windy City, wrapping nihilistic weight in the kind of crushing riffs that flatten everything in their path.
Murphy, North Carolina black/doom metal project with four releases since 2017. EPs like cerulean and emptiness explore color and void through atmospheric heaviness from the western tip of the Tarheel State, deep in the Smoky Mountains.
Seattle doom metal project whose 2017 debut Night of the Mystics invokes the Lovecraftian fish-god through ritualistic heaviness. The Pacific Northwest's perpetual grey providing the perfect atmosphere for their oceanic dread.
Massive Stoner / Doom Metal out of Texas.
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