Germany's Woburn House (essentially vocalist-guitarist Christian Kolf with drummer Florian Toyka) delivered a creative variation on doom metal with Message To Ourselves Outside The Dreaming Machine (2006).

Toyka's side-project Klabautamann (essentially vocalist-guitarist Tim Steffens and Florian Toyka) offered complex post-metal on Our Journey Through The Woods (2003) and Der Ort (Heavy Horses, 2005).

Island was another Woburn House spin-off, documented on Orakel (Vendlus, 2008), that compiles t6heir first two demos (2004 and 2005).

Woburn House's Monstrous Manoeuvres In The Mushroom Maze (Paradigms, 2009) was a mellower and simpler album than their debut.

Gothic overtones and increasingly disorienting structures turned the band into a prog-rock project on Sleep Summer Storm (Zeitgeister, 2012), whose connection with heavy metal was by now purely historical.