Where riffs crush like crumbling monuments: Splendidula's Kilte tears through a frozen landscape of grief and inner torment with relentless screams and haunting atmospheric passages, while their self-titled debut laid the fundament — traditional doom meets sludge grooves and psychedelic drones. Buzzard's Disunion delivers a state-of-the-planet address via Sabbathian riffs and Dylan-esque wordplay, burning like watchfire rather than wildfire. Max Kutner's Rogue Lash collides industrial, drone metal, and sardonic NYC dispatches into a post-genre behemoth, while Oskoreien's All Too Human meditates on free will and tragedy through unrelenting waves of achingly beautiful black metal.

Doom Metal releases

Satiricus Doomicus Americus (Buzzard, Christopher Thomas Elliott) by Satiricus Doomicus Americus (Buzzard, Christopher Thomas Elliott) cover art

“Dubbed 'doomgrass,' Satiricus Doomicus Americus combines doom/rock/metal/folk/country with socially relevant wordplay and vintage audio sampling.”