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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Miami's Consular drag doom and sludge metal through the humidity of South Florida, building slow-motion heaviness that feels waterlogged and oppressive, like the city's summer air rendered in distorted guitar.
Black-death-sludge act from Catania, Sicily, with origins stretching back to 2000. Consumer has spent over two decades merging extreme subgenres from beneath the shadow of Mount Etna.
Doom and sludge metal band from Bilbao in the Basque Country, Spain, formed in 2018. They craft oppressive, slow-burning heaviness from the industrial Basque heartland.
Louisville, Kentucky doom/sludge band steeped in that city's legendary heavy music tradition, offering crushing slow tempos and feedback-soaked guitar tone. Their sound inherits the oppressive weight that has long defined Louisville's underground.
Weymouth, Massachusetts grind/sludge band colliding the explosive speed of grindcore with the oppressive, tar-thick weight of sludge metal. The collision of those two extremes results in a sound that is both manic and suffocating.
Sludge metal band from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2024. They deliver crushing, oppressive sludge from the Alsatian capital.
Sofia-based groove and sludge metal act formed in 2011 by members of several Bulgarian underground bands including KPD-0, GRAD, and Osil Amuk. Their 2014 full-length Crawling Under The Heavy Foot Of Addiction layers stoner-tinged heaviness over grinding sludge grooves.
Sludge metal band from Leeds, England, active since 2013. They deliver thick, oppressive sludge from the heart of Yorkshire.
Sludge metal band from Lyon, France, active since 1997. With nearly three decades of activity, Corkage are among the most enduring sludge acts in France.
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