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Overmars was a French post-metal band active from 2001 to 2011, formed in Lyon around vocalist Xavier Théret, guitarists Antoine Simon and Pierrick Marin, bassist Marion Leclerc, drummer Benjamin Pic, and keyboardist Tiphaine Coudert. Their 2005 debut Affliction, Endocrine... Vertigo (Candlelight Records) fused doom, industrial, gothic rock, death and black metal into an oppressive, droning, oftentimes sludgy whole, while 2007's Born Again stretched that approach into a single 40-minute piece that NME later named among its 'Twenty Heaviest (Metal) Records of All Time.'

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Emptiness are a Brussels avant-garde metal act formed in 1998 by bassist/vocalist Jérémie Bézier and guitarist Olivier J.L.W., both formerly of Enthroned (not in the E.M.M.A. atlas). Metal Archives tracks their evolution from Black/Death Metal in the early years toward Post-Metal/Post-Punk on later records, and their own bio describes the arc as moving 'through black and death metal, avant-garde experimentation, and claustrophobic minimalism.' Now signed to Season of Mist, their 2026 album Nowhere Speaks was tracked live in studio and deliberately loops back into the closing riff of 2014's Nothing But the Whole; the band also played Roadburn Redux 2021.

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Beneath the Sod is the solo funeral/industrial doom project of Irish musician Ray Keenaghan (Wreck of the Hesperus), formed 2017. Releases include Circling the Drain (2017, Fort Evil Fruit), the split cassette Transmorphic Eye (2018, with Crypticum), and a self-titled 2021 EP on Cursed Monk Records described as harsh, synth-laced industrial doom metal with guest vocals from Richard Carson.

Minnesota trio Worn Mantle emerged from an earlier, unnamed doom/post-metal project to craft sprawling, noise-caked blackened death/doom, stretching songs well past the 15-minute mark and drifting, per Decibel, into 'guitar-driven psychedelic ambience' between passages of black/death intensity and doom/sludge weight. Their self-titled 2022 debut and 2023 follow-up Hole have built them a quiet but attentive following in the deep underground doom scene.

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Chiva was a Swiss atmospheric doom/black metal and darkwave project from Sion, Valais, formed in 1996 as a parallel/solo outlet for the person behind the band Sadness, described in its own liner notes as 'a desire to realise my personal work through a different and majestic music.' The sole release, the CD 'Oracle morte' (1996, Witchhunt Records/SPV), features four tracks exploring sadness, loneliness, winter and majesty, with additional vocals from Robert Frost on 'Fire And Ice.'

Owl is the Bonn, Germany atmospheric death-doom project of Christian Kolf (also of Valborg) and drummer Patrick Schroeder, running since 2010 as an outlet for the death-doom and funeral-doom territory Kolf's main band doesn't cover. Records like the self-titled 'Owl' (2011) and 'Nights in Distortion' (2018) split roughly evenly between churning, Immolation/Deathspell-Omega-tinged death metal and long ambient passages of shifting keyboards and reverbed guitar drone. Their most recent compilation, 'Grid Shimmer' (2022), was released jointly through Zeitgeister and Total Dissonance Worship, and they shared a 2019 split with Slovak act 0N0.

Asofy is the black/doom metal solo project of Italian multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Tryfar, born in Milan in early 2000 and signed to Avantgarde Music since 2013's Percezione. Tryfar handles guitar, bass, vocals and programming across a discography (Ebym, Percezione, Nessun luogo, Amusia, Svanire) that trades blast-and-riff black/doom for gloomy reverb-soaked atmospheres. 2020's Amusia, its sixth release, drew its concept from Oliver Sacks's Musicophilia, framed by reviewers as sitting 'between doom and black metal' with beautiful, decaying guitar layers and breathy vocals.

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Persistence in Mourning is the Oklahoma City-based solo funeral doom project of Andy Lippoldt, active since 2006, described as sitting between funeral doom, death industrial, power electronics and death metal.

Nightly Gale are a Polish 'suicidal'/experimental doom metal band from Zabrze, formed in January 1996 and still releasing as of their 2008 album Imprint. Founder Slawek Pyrzyk's slow, melancholic doom foundation has been layered over the years with second-vocalist Waldemar Sagan's black metal screams and, notably, live saxophone passages that reviewers single out as an unusually organic touch for the genre. Their debut ...and Jesus Wept (2001) came out on Pagan Records, and Imprint (2008) pushed the format further into a single continuous 70-minute piece.

Charming Timur is a Helsinki, Finland one-man project self-described as "a one man musical Soothing Apocalypse" spanning experimental metal, industrial and atmospheric music. Albums like "Focused Rage" (2017) blend nu-metal riffs and chaotic screaming with post-rock vibes and electronic atmospheres — the artist's own description is wanting it to sound like "the entire universe rip itself apart and yet it would sound beautiful at the same time." The project's identity behind the name could not be confirmed from any directly-fetched source; bassist Damjan Kapor guests on most of Focused Rage.

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