---
title: "Doomgaze"
type: "MusicGenre"
url: "https://themetalnet.com/genre/doomgaze"
parent: "Doom Metal"
bands: 42
era: "2010s"
---

# Doomgaze

**Doomgaze** is a metal fusion genre, formative in the 2010s. TheMetalNet maps 42 bands and 95 albums under it.

Doomgaze is where doom metal’s slow, downtuned weight meets shoegaze’s reverb-soaked haze, producing dreamy, melancholic music built on huge, blurred guitars and ethereal vocals. It emerged in the 2000s with acts like Nadja, Jesu, and The Angelic Process, taking doom’s crawling tempos and drowning them in wall-of-sound texture. Later bands like True Widow gave it a hypnotic, song-oriented pull. The mood is introspective and sorrowful rather than aggressive.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Genre | Doomgaze |
| Level | Sub-genre |
| Parent genre | Doom Metal |
| Formative era | 2010s |
| Fusion genre | Yes |
| Bands | 42 |
| Albums | 95 |
| Formation span | 1998 to 2025 |

## Bands

- [This Will Destroy You](https://themetalnet.com/band/this-will-destroy-you) (United States, 2005)
- [Hangman’s Chair](https://themetalnet.com/band/hangman-s-chair) (France, 2005)
- [Bitcrush](https://themetalnet.com/band/bitcrush) (United States)
- [Planning for Burial](https://themetalnet.com/band/planning-for-burial) (United States)
- [BIG|BRAVE](https://themetalnet.com/band/big-brave) (Canada, 2012)
- [Spotlights](https://themetalnet.com/band/spotlights) (United States, 2014)
- [Holy Fawn](https://themetalnet.com/band/holy-fawn)
- [shedfromthebody](https://themetalnet.com/band/shedfromthebody) (Finland)
- [Iress](https://themetalnet.com/band/iress) (United States)
- [Shine](https://themetalnet.com/band/shine) (Poland, 2013)
- [Illudium](https://themetalnet.com/band/illudium) (2011)
- [Palehorse/Palerider](https://themetalnet.com/band/palehorse-palerider)
- [אשמדאי](https://themetalnet.com/band/band-a40962a3) (United States, 1998)
- [The Angelus](https://themetalnet.com/band/the-angelus) (United States)
- [Eternal Rin](https://themetalnet.com/band/eternal-rin) (United Kingdom)
- [Mindless Paradise](https://themetalnet.com/band/mindless-paradise) (Ukraine, 2009)
- [Ingrina](https://themetalnet.com/band/ingrina)
- [Church of the Sea](https://themetalnet.com/band/church-of-the-sea) (2017)
- [Lotus Thrones](https://themetalnet.com/band/lotus-thrones) (United States)
- [Ocean of Ghosts](https://themetalnet.com/band/ocean-of-ghosts)
- [SLOWHOLE](https://themetalnet.com/band/slowhole) (2023)
- [Crone Visions](https://themetalnet.com/band/crone-visions)
- [The Wright Valley Trio](https://themetalnet.com/band/the-wright-valley-trio) (Germany, 2014)
- [Ketoret](https://themetalnet.com/band/ketoret) (2019)
- [Fuzznaut](https://themetalnet.com/band/fuzznaut)
- [STAHV](https://themetalnet.com/band/stahv)
- [Deeper Graves](https://themetalnet.com/band/deeper-graves) (United States)
- [Black Glow](https://themetalnet.com/band/black-glow)
- [In a House of Heartbeats](https://themetalnet.com/band/in-a-house-of-heartbeats)
- [Death Throes From A Star](https://themetalnet.com/band/death-throes-from-a-star) (2017)
- [Birdwitch](https://themetalnet.com/band/birdwitch)
- [Witchrat](https://themetalnet.com/band/witchrat) (United States, 2019)
- [Delays Have Dangerous Ends](https://themetalnet.com/band/delays-have-dangerous-ends) (2022)
- [AUTOMATON 777](https://themetalnet.com/band/automaton-777)
- [Boron](https://themetalnet.com/band/boron)
- [Conquered](https://themetalnet.com/band/conquered)
- [Dreamfuzz](https://themetalnet.com/band/dreamfuzz) (New Zealand)
- [Flail](https://themetalnet.com/band/flail-7d100f4e) (United Kingdom, 2025)
- [Luna and the Aether](https://themetalnet.com/band/luna-and-the-aether)
- [Rūdus](https://themetalnet.com/band/rudus)
- [The Raven Hunting Osprey](https://themetalnet.com/band/the-raven-hunting-osprey)
- [We As A Company](https://themetalnet.com/band/we-as-a-company) (Italy)

## Where it is played

- [United States](https://themetalnet.com/country/us): 10 bands
- [United Kingdom](https://themetalnet.com/country/gb): 2 bands
- [Finland](https://themetalnet.com/country/fi): 1 bands
- [France](https://themetalnet.com/country/fr): 1 bands
- [Canada](https://themetalnet.com/country/ca): 1 bands
- [New Zealand](https://themetalnet.com/country/nz): 1 bands
- [Poland](https://themetalnet.com/country/pl): 1 bands
- [Ukraine](https://themetalnet.com/country/ua): 1 bands

## Bands formed by decade

| Decade | Bands formed |
| --- | --- |
| 1990s | 1 |
| 2000s | 3 |
| 2010s | 9 |
| 2020s | 3 |

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Source: [TheMetalNet https://themetalnet.com/genre/doomgaze](https://themetalnet.com/genre/doomgaze). Catalog data from MusicBrainz and Metal Archives. Full site index: https://themetalnet.com/llms.txt