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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Dublin-based sludge metal act active since 2018, delivering corrosive, feedback-drenched heaviness that grinds forward with hostile intent. Their sound channels the genre's essential aggression through punishingly distorted guitar tones and abrasive vocals.
Doom/sludge metal act from Modena/Bologna, formed in 2011. Their music lurches forward with deliberate, oppressive weight, burying the listener beneath layers of corroded guitar tone.
Sludge metal outfit from Ankara, formed in 2013. Their music moves with the grinding inevitability of industrial machinery, all corroded tones and barely controlled fury.
Doom/sludge metal act from Warsaw, formed in 2017. Their music lurches forward with deliberate, oppressive weight, burying the listener beneath layers of corroded guitar tone.
Spanish stoner/sludge metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2011. They craft heavy, western-tinged stoner-sludge from the Catalan capital.
Spanish doom/death/sludge metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2017. They merge three crushing subgenres into a massive, suffocating wall of sound.
Sludge/post-metal band from Stoke-on-Trent, formed in 2014, described as ferocious but tempered with quiet introspection. Their album D U S T features three extended compositions spanning up to nineteen minutes, blending sludge metal weight with post-rock dynamics.
Manchester blackened sludge/doom band formed in 2023, delivering wave after wave of crushing sludge. Their self-titled debut features five tracks across thirty-seven minutes, culminating in the eleven-minute closer Black Sky, and has drawn over fifty supporters on Bandcamp.
Doom/sludge metal act from Treviso, formed in 2003. Their music lurches forward with deliberate, oppressive weight, burying the listener beneath layers of corroded guitar tone.
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