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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Sleeping Gods craft doom, death, and gothic metal from Kassel, weaving dark romantic atmospheres through crushing heaviness and deep growls. Their Hessian base provides a fitting backdrop for music that explores the space between slumber and divinity.
New York doom/stoner metal band formed in 2018, steeped in the heavy, psychedelic riff traditions that run from Black Sabbath through generations of slow and heavy music. Sleeping Village prioritize atmosphere and tonal depth, crafting music that moves at the pace of continents drifting.
Detroit's Sleepy Cheese brew a thick combination of stoner riffing, sludge-soaked heaviness, and slow-motion doom, leaning into the grimy industrial character of their Motor City home since 2014. Their sound prizes weight and atmosphere over speed, settling into a low, comfortable groove.
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Providence's Sliimo emerged in 2023 as a young entry into Rhode Island's heavy underground, working the slow, oppressive intersection of sludge, stoner, and doom metal. Their sound prioritizes crushing low-end and a crawling pace, fitting naturally into the New England scene's appetite for uglier, heavier sounds.
Milwaukee's Slob Donovan have spent over a decade dragging drone, sludge, and doom metal into the slowest possible territory since their 2009 formation, producing music defined by cavernous low frequencies and suffocating tempo. They sit comfortably in the Wisconsin underground's tolerance for the willfully ugly and punishing.
Los Angeles' Slog combine the bleakness of death-doom with black metal's icy atmosphere and death metal's brutality since their 2021 formation, creating music that crawls through the darkest possible sonic spaces. Their multi-genre approach reflects LA's ability to generate extreme metal that refuses easy categorization.
Reykjavik's Slor channel doom and sludge metal with glacial patience since 2023. Their Icelandic setting, surrounded by actual glaciers and volcanic landscapes, naturally informs their crushing, elemental heaviness.
Chicago's Sloth King work the atmospheric end of doom-death metal, building music that moves slowly but with tremendous emotional weight since their 2015 formation. Their layered approach draws out melody and atmosphere from within the genre's characteristic heaviness, giving their music a contemplative quality alongside the brutality.
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