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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Wake up Dead (feat. Dave Mustaine) (2022)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Laredo, Texas outfit formed in 2012 that fuses progressive sensibilities with death-doom, crafting dense, slow-burning compositions that draw equally from melodic death metal and oppressive doom atmospheres.
Los Angeles funeral doom band formed in 2012, delivering the glacially slow tempos, cavernous low-end, and suffocating atmosphere that define the most desolate end of the doom spectrum.
New Haven, Connecticut sludge and doom band formed in 2007, combining the tar-thick heaviness of sludge metal with the slow, oppressive weight of traditional doom.
Houston sludge, doom, and post-metal band formed in 2017, weaving the heaviness of sludge with the expansive, introspective textures of post-metal into a brooding and cinematic sound.
Rochester, New York doom and post-metal outfit formed in 2017, blending the slow, melancholic weight of doom metal with the atmospheric breadth of post-metal.
North Carolina project formed in 2020 that combines atmospheric black metal and doom with elements of grindcore, creating a jarring and unconventional blend of introspective bleakness and violent sonic bursts.
Monolithic Stoner / Doom Metal from Austin.
Connecticut band formed in 2025 that began with thrash metal influences and shifted toward a doom-oriented sound, exploring the heavier and slower end of the metal spectrum.
Summanus is a Denver, Colorado black/doom metal band formed in 2021, combining the bleakness of black metal with the slow, crushing tempos of doom for a dark and heavy sound.
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