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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 stoner/sludge metal band from Annecy in the Alps, formed in 2019. They deliver ritualistic stoner-sludge from the pristine Alpine lakeside.
Four-piece sludge/stoner metal band from London, formed in 2016, blending black metal, doom, grunge, and sludge influences. Their 2016 demo was recorded live at Soundlab Studios, capturing raw, atmospheric heaviness across five tracks of crushing, genre-blending metal.
Eastbourne doom/sludge metal and hardcore band formed in 2022, creating what they call chaos sludge n' doom. Their 2024 album Low End Scum delivers gnarly, uncompromising bass-heavy beats with visceral confrontational energy.
German sludge/doom/southern metal band from Sondershausen in Thuringia, active since 2009. They fuse sludge and doom metal's crushing weight with southern metal's swagger and groove.
Heavy Doom / Sludge Metal / Grunge out of Texas.
Dutch sludge/post-metal outfit active since 2023, building dynamic compositions that oscillate between abrasive sludge riffing and atmospheric expanses. Their music trades in tension and release, alternating quiet passages with crushing walls of distortion.
Lisbon-based sludge/post-metal outfit active since 2022, building dynamic compositions that oscillate between abrasive sludge riffing and atmospheric expanses. Their music trades in tension and release, alternating quiet passages with crushing walls of distortion.
German sludge/drone/doom metal band from Mannheim, active since 2006. Known for their punishing wall of sound built from unrelenting riffs and tortured vocals, their 80-minute album Negative Black is described as brutal, creepy, and relentless -- the predecessor project to Bellrope.
Sludge metal outfit from Wrocław, formed in 2015. Their music moves with the grinding inevitability of industrial machinery, all corroded tones and barely controlled fury.
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