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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Death-doom-sludge metal band from Marburg, Germany, formed in 2023. They layer crushing doom and sludge weight with death metal aggression from the Hessian university city.
Portland, Maine doom/sludge duo known for mammoth low-tuned riffs and crushing, suffocating heaviness rooted in the cold Maine wilderness. Their music evokes the weight and desolation of the New England landscape.
Indianapolis sludge metal band building walls of crushing, feedback-drenched sound in the Midwestern underground. Their slow, punishing riffs and bleak atmosphere carry the weight of the genre's heaviest practitioners.
Savannah's Conquer/Devour bring the swampy weight of Southern metal into slow-grinding sludge territory, soaking their riffs in the oppressive heat and rot of coastal Georgia.
Los Angeles's Conqueror Worm wade through death doom and crushing sludge, layering suffocating low-end heaviness with the kind of desolate atmosphere that weighs down on the listener like a collapsing structure.
Sludge metal band from Tampere, Finland, active since 2008. They deliver crushing, oppressive sludge from Finland's third-largest city.
Consecuencias is a death/sludge and hardcore band from the western suburbs of Buenos Aires, Argentina, formed around 2019 by Ivann on vocals, Ezequiel on bass, Faka on drums, and xMarc on guitar. They self-recorded their Demo 2018 across various locations in the west of the city and later released the full-length Todo Abismo Calma Sus Ojos, delivering politically charged extremity with a raw, DIY ethos.
Los Angeles's Constraints of Light explore the heavier end of sludge metal, constructing dense, slow-moving walls of distortion that feel as suffocating and expansive as the city that surrounds them.
Dallas's Construction Sports are a genre-bending experiment in extremity, hurling death metal, grindcore, sludge, and power metal into chaotic collision in one of Texas's most unpredictable and adventurous heavy acts.
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