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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Doom-sludge-stoner act from Russia, formed in 2024. Call of Wrath delivers heavy, slow-burning riffs.
Allentown, Pennsylvania's Call Off Dead traffic in doom and sludge metal, stacking slow, oppressive riffs into a dense wall of sound since 2019.
Post-metal and sludge band from Kokkola, Finland, formed in 2019. They blend expansive post-metal dynamics with crushing sludge weight from the Ostrobothnian coast.
Ohio-based sludge/punk hybrid that mashes the crawling heaviness of sludge metal with punk's raw, stripped-down hostility.
Doom-sludge project from Portugal, formed in 2018. Canens Carcer — Latin roughly meaning 'singing prison' — delivers crushing, oppressive heaviness.
Atlanta instrumental sludge/post-metal duo formed in 2023, contributing to the growing Southern underground with crushing, wordless heaviness.
Saint Paul, Minnesota progressive sludge and groove metal band active since 2010, weaving horror and Norse/Viking imagery into their heavy, layered sound.
Portland, Oregon sludge metal act formed in 2022, infusing their crushing sound with playful Indiana Jones-inspired cinematic imagery.
Instrumental doom — debut is two tracks spanning 38 minutes, mastered by Proscriptor McGovern of Absu. Follow-up is a single 37-minute track.
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