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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Brooklyn sludge metal project. The name's visceral, stomachic imagery channels physical discomfort through crushing heaviness.
Acid Ocean has navigated stoner and sludge metal waters from Milan since 2012, their evocative name suggesting vast expanses of corrosive heaviness. Their Lombard-bred sound favors the slow, saturated approach that defines the stoner-sludge intersection.
Acid Priest is a doom and sludge metal band from Bloomfield, New Jersey. Their sound combines the crushing low end of doom with sludge metal's abrasive, confrontational edge.
Acid State channels doom and sludge metal from Kent since 2025, their corrosive name reflecting the dissolving, heavy sound they create. The project represents the newest wave of extreme heaviness from England's Garden County.
Acid Swamp creates atmospheric sludge metal from Veliky Novgorod since 2022. Their toxic-wetland name captures the suffocating, marsh-like quality of their sound from this ancient northwest Russian city.
AcidFather channels sludge metal from Srbobran in Vojvodina since 2017. Their corrosive-patriarchal name drives heavy, slow-burning compositions from this Bačka flatlands town.
AcidLand creates sludge, stoner, and doom metal from Nysa in Opole Voivodeship since 2013. From this Silesian town on the Nysa Kłodzka River, they craft hazy, riff-worshipping heaviness that dissolves listeners in its psychedelic weight.
Acidsaurus Bong brings psychedelic sludge and stoner metal from Edinburgh since 2020, their prehistoric-drug name promising a mind-altering journey through heavy, dinosaur-sized riffs. Their Scottish origins feed a sound as thick as the Edinburgh fog.
Sellersville, Pennsylvania sludge metal project. The name's assault on the senses — sharp stench of decomposition — captures sludge's essence.
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