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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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Sacramento doom and sludge act Chrch are known for slow, colossal heaviness anchored by vocalist Eva Rose's commanding presence. Their 2017 album Unanswered drew wide attention for its emotionally devastating weight.
Scranton, Pennsylvania sludge act Christ Chopper drag their heaviness through the working-class industrial wasteland of northeastern Pennsylvania. Thick, slow, and corrosive.
New Orleans' Christ Inversion fold industrial noise and sludge heaviness into their black metal framework, producing something as murky and corrosive as the city they call home. Genuinely strange and unsettling.
Baton Rouge doom and sludge metal band Christworm trades in slow, suffocating heaviness shaped by the heat and humidity of Louisiana's Southern gothic atmosphere. Their riffs crawl and distort, leaning into the oppressive weight that defines the best of the Southern sludge tradition.
Sludge, stoner metal, and grunge band from Brussels, Belgium, active since 2009. They fuse the low-end heaviness of sludge with stoner grooves and the raw emotional intensity of grunge from the Belgian capital.
Roseville, California's Chrome Ghost blends doom, sludge, and post-metal into a slow-burning, psychedelic heavy sound. Their music favors long-form compositions that build tension through layers of distortion and atmospheric dynamics.
Lovecraft-inspired sludge and doom metal project formed in 2017, channeling cosmic horror through crushing sonic weight and oppressive atmospherics. Their eldritch thematic focus matches a sound designed to evoke existential dread.
Sludge, stoner, and groove metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2019. They pile heavy grooves atop sludgy foundations with a stoner metal swagger, adding to Sofia's increasingly diverse heavy music landscape.
Durham, North Carolina trio Church of Wolves traffic in hazy sludge and stoner doom, building slow-burning songs around thick southern fuzz and oppressive low-end weight. Their sound evokes smoke-filled rooms and the long, grinding hours of a southern summer.
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