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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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Sludge/doom/death metal band from Sheffield, formed in 2010. They fuse the crushing weight of doom with death metal's intensity and sludge metal's abrasive grime from the steel city's underground.
French sludge metal band from Reims in Champagne, formed in 2019. They craft crushing sludge metal from the city of coronations.
Spanish stoner/sludge metal band from Cantabria, formed in 2022. They deliver heavy, fuzzy stoner-sludge from the green coast of northern Spain.
Krasnoyarsk-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2022, conjuring thick clouds of fuzz-laden riffage and hypnotic, groove-driven compositions. Their sound channels the haze of 1970s proto-metal through a modern lens of distortion-worship and lysergic exploration.
London sludge/doom metal band signed to Church Road Records, formed in 2022. Their debut Crusaders of Joy features four extended tracks of devastatingly heavy, lo-fi doom described by fans as having all the groove of a wrecking ball.
Three-piece negative sludge metal band from Leicester, formed in 2021. Their releases including Writhing Between Birth and Death deliver abrasive, nihilistic sludge through a stripped-down, punishing approach.
Doom/sludge metal act from Athens, formed in 2020. Their music lurches forward with deliberate, oppressive weight, burying the listener beneath layers of corroded guitar tone.
Atmospheric and progressive sludge/post-metal project from Oostende, Belgium, active since 2013. Their demo "Hal," recorded at QWI Studios in Ichtegem, layers psychedelic textures over crushing sludge and post-metal dynamics.
Drawing from the contemplative side of black metal, this Russian project channels Kemerovo's spirit into sweeping, atmosphere-laden compositions. Since 2017, their recordings balance raw aggression with passages of fragile, melancholic beauty.
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