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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Derbyshire's Spore operate in the oppressive depths of doom and drone metal, creating glacially slow, monolithic soundscapes since 2019. Their music prioritizes texture and weight over melody or velocity.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama doom metal band Sqquat formed in 2022, adding a heavy, slow-burning presence to the Deep South's doom and heavy underground with oppressive, low-tempo riffs.
Yorkshire's Squalords deal in the kind of doom-sludge hybrid that feels like wading through wet concrete. Since 2014, they have cultivated a sound that is unrelentingly heavy and deliberately paced.
St. Bastard is a Brooklyn-based sludge and doom metal band formed in 2015, combining the slow, crushing weight of doom with sludge metal's abrasive, feedback-drenched heaviness.
St. Unholyness channel stoner and doom metal from the Lower Bavarian town of Pfarrkirchen, their ironic saint name blending sacrilege with the genre's worship of heavy riffs. Emerging in 2025, they bring blasphemous heaviness to the Bavarian countryside.
Stag is a black/doom metal band from Columbia, Missouri, formed in 2011, merging the desolate grimness of black metal with doom metal's slow, grief-laden heaviness.
Stalemate of Wills is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania sludge, stoner, and doom metal band formed in 2022, conjuring slow, hazy heaviness from the crossroads of sludge's abrasion and stoner doom's hypnotic weight.
Stampede is a Lexington, Kentucky stoner and doom metal band formed in 2010, building slow, heavy grooves from the fertile ground between the psychedelic haze of stoner rock and the crushing weight of doom metal.
Stampede of Sloth channel sludge, stoner, and doom metal from Leipzig, their oxymoronic name perfectly capturing the paradox of their music: a stampede played in slow motion. Active since 2018, they bring crushing, glacial heaviness to Saxony's cultural capital.
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