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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Sludge metal act split between Stockholm and Gothenburg, formed in 2026 and representing the absolute cutting edge of Sweden's heavy music. Their crushing sonic weight draws from the most oppressive corners of the sludge tradition.
Post-metal and sludge band from Swansea, Wales, formed in 2020. They blend expansive post-metal dynamics with sludge weight from the Welsh coast.
Linköping atmospheric sludge metal act formed in 2022, layering brooding textures over crushing heaviness. Their atmospheric approach adds contemplative depth to sludge metal's raw power.
Doom and sludge metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2020. They craft crushing, slow-burning heaviness layered with dense, oppressive atmospheres.
Bloomington, Indiana sludge metal project Civilized Worm distill the genre's essential combination of down-tuned heaviness and hypnotic repetition into slow-moving sonic punishment. Their music is deliberately ugly and quietly compelling.
New Jersey's Clamfight deal in swampy, heavy-as-sin sludge and stoner metal, built on massive downtuned riffs and slow-burning grooves. Their records carry the weight of a collapsing building and move at roughly the same pace.
Doom-sludge act from Moscow, active since 2010. Clarence Boddicker — named after the RoboCop villain — delivers crushing, law-breaking heaviness from the Russian capital.
Colorado Springs trio Clarion Void inhabit a murky space between black metal, death metal, and sludge, where oppressive atmosphere and dissonant heaviness collide. Their music is dense and suffocating, shaped by the high-altitude bleakness of their Rocky Mountain surroundings.
Doom and sludge metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2018. Named after a Game of Thrones character, they deliver crushing doom-sludge from the French capital.
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