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Khemmis

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Khemmis (2026)	Deceiver (2021)	Desolation (2018)
Hunted (2016)	Absolution (2015)

Members
3 Male

Origin
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Denver, Colorado, U.S.

Genre
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Doom Metal

Style
Metal

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Born

2012

Active
2012 to Present...

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Most Loved Tracks

Track	Last.FM Listens	Loves
Above the Water	95,633	6 users
The Bereaved	109,925	6 users
Isolation	71,499	5 users
A Conversation with Death	147,065	4 users
Ash, Cinder, Smoke	49,150	2 users
Candlelight	67,133	2 users
Three Gates	56,638	1 users

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Khemmis is an American doom metal band from Denver, Colorado, that formed in 2012. Their second studio album, Hunted, was ranked 11th on Rolling Stone′s 20 best metal albums of 2016 and 1st on Decibel magazine's Top 40 Albums of 2016.

In July 2017, the band announced that they had signed to Nuclear Blast (via licensing deal with 20 Buck Spin) for the release of their third album. The band toured North America alongside Enslaved, Wolves in the Throne Room, and Myrkur as part of the 2018 Decibel Magazine Tour. They released their third album, Desolation, on June 22, 2018. The album was ranked 9th on Decibel Magazine's Top 40 Albums of 2018 and 12th on Consequence of Sound's Top 25 Metal + Rock Albums of 2018.

In February 2019, the band announced that they had signed a worldwide deal with Nuclear Blast. In August that year, the band contributed a cover of the folk song "O Death" (titled "A Conversation with Death") for the video game series The Dark Pictures Anthology. In 2020, they covered "Down in a Hole" from Alice in Chains.

They are named after an ancient city located in Egypt, now known as Akhmim.