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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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French sludge/post-black metal band from Metz in Lorraine, formed in 2013. They merge sludge metal's toxic weight with post-black metal's atmospheric scope.
Sludge metal band from Southend-on-Sea, formed in 2021. They bring crushing, abrasive sludge to the Essex coastal underground.
Roermond-based doom/sludge outfit active since 2009, dragging their compositions through a swamp of distortion, feedback, and crushing tempos. Their sound sits at the punishing intersection where doom metal's patience meets sludge's confrontational aggression.
San Antonio metallic hardcore influenced by NYHC. Released on Deathwish Inc.
Doom/sludge metal power trio from Exeter, formed in 2025, drawing from Crowbar, Eyehategod, Bolt Thrower, and Black Sabbath. Their early demos deliver crushing South West sludge with riffs that span the spectrum from classic doom to death metal weight.
French stoner/sludge metal band from Castelfranc in Lot, formed in 2010. They deliver heavy stoner-sludge from the remote rural southwest of France.
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French sludge/doom metal band from Toulon on the Mediterranean, formed in 2013. They craft bizarre, reptilian sludge-doom from the Provençal coast.
Czech death/sludge metal and punk band from Prague, formed in 2016. They merge death metal heaviness with sludge metal's grinding low-end and punk's raw aggression.
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