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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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New York sludge metal project. Patriotic mortality rendered in crushing heaviness.
Piraeus' Amniac craft atmospheric post-metal and sludge that ebbs and flows between delicate tension and crushing release. Since 2014, they've built expansive sonic landscapes from the port city that serves as Athens' industrial gateway.
Oklahoma City metalcore project. The absent — lost or disappeared — channeled through aggressive music.
Minneapolis sludge metal project. Ophidian imagery rendered in crushing Twin Cities heaviness.
Tucson sludge metal duo conjuring apocalyptic heaviness from the Arizona desert since 2017. Their releases — Monuments to Departed Worlds and The Elysian Void — deal in the kind of monolithic, slow-burning devastation that sounds like the Sonoran landscape crumbling to dust.
A post-metal and sludge band from Hannut, Liège, active and independent, whose album Mens-Sana (2022) was recorded and mixed by Gérald Jans at Noise Factory Studio in Belgium. They appeared in Grimm Gent's roundup of notable Belgian sludge/post-metal releases from 2020, situating them among the active underground acts of the country's southern heavy music scene.
Memphis thrash metal project from the Tennessee underground.
Anatomy of Habit is a Chicago post-metal and doom collective formed in 2008 by vocalist Mark Solotroff and guitarist Alex Latus, blending post-metal, sludge, post-punk, death-rock, and drone influences into extended, atmospheric compositions. The band released their debut on their own before issuing Ciphers + Axioms in 2014 on Relapse Records, followed by Even If It Takes a Lifetime (2021) and Black Openings (2023). Their sound is notably slow and enveloping, drawing from industrial and experimental traditions as much as from metal.
Los Angeles sludge metal trio laying waste since 2014. Three releases of corrosive, tar-thick heaviness that channels the smog-choked sprawl of LA into music that feels like breathing in exhaust fumes — oppressive, toxic, and oddly addictive.
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