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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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Agasia blends blackened sludge metal with crust punk from Turku since 2013. From Finland's former capital on the southwestern coast, they create a corrosive fusion that draws equally from extreme metal and DIY punk traditions.
Age of Strange Cults are a Vienna-based post-metal and experimental sludge band who released their self-titled full-length in April 2024, building on an earlier EP and a 2022 practice room demo. Their sound layers slow, heavy sludge foundations with post-metal dynamics and a willingness to push into abstract experimental territory.
Agenbite Misery is an experimental black/sludge metal project from New Hampshire. Named after a Middle English phrase meaning 'remorse of conscience,' the project's 2026 full-length "Remorse of Conscience" makes that translation explicit across eight tracks of abrasive, genre-blurring extremity.
Portland sludge metal project named after the Hindu ascetics who practice extreme rituals. Spiritual transgression through Pacific Northwest heaviness.
Agitat Solum creates sludge, stoner, and doom metal from Loures in the Lisbon district as of 2026. Their Latin name meaning 'shake the ground' captures the seismic heaviness of their freshly forged sound.
Agrimonia has delivered sludge, post-metal, and crust from Gothenburg since 2013. Named after the agrimony plant used in folk medicine, they channel herbal bitterness through crushing, socially conscious heaviness from Sweden's west coast.
Agruss channels atmospheric post-black, death, and sludge metal from Rivne in northwestern Ukraine since 2012. Their multi-genre approach draws from the vast forests and marshlands of the Volhynian landscape surrounding their city.
Aguirre brings sludge metal from Bordeaux since 2010, named after the mad conquistador of Werner Herzog's legendary film. Their cinematic inspiration feeds a sound as relentless and unhinged as their namesake's doomed Amazon expedition.
Ahasver merges groove, progressive, and sludge metal from Toulouse since 2022, creating a dense, multilayered sound from the Pink City. Named after the Wandering Jew legend, their music carries the weight of eternal restlessness.
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