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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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Black-sludge metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2014. They fuse the raw darkness of black metal with sludge metal's oppressive weight.
Sludge and stoner metal band from Tours, France, formed in 2017. They deliver thick, fuzz-laden heaviness from the Loire Valley.
Sludge metal band from Wurzburg, Germany, active since 2015. They deliver crushing, oppressive sludge from the Franconian wine country.
Cras is a sludge metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed around 2019 and known for blending sludge, doom, and hardcore influences. The band released their debut EP "Desperato" as the first installment in a planned trilogy, drawing comparisons to Brazilian underground acts and featuring guest appearances from members of Torture Squad.
Richmond, Virginia band marrying black metal atmosphere to sludge metal's slow, crushing weight. Their sound carries the city's long tradition of heavy, experimental underground music.
Atlanta doom and sludge outfit dragging Southern heaviness through thick walls of distortion and oppressive low-end. Their sound draws from both the misery of doom and the grimed-out grit of the ATL underground.
San Antonio trio fusing black metal's cold menace with the suffocating weight of doom and sludge. Their music moves with deliberate malice, rooted deep in the South Texas underground.
Baltimore duo fusing the raw filth of crust punk with sludge metal's lumbering brutality. Their sound is abrasive and uncompromising, carved out of the Chesapeake DIY underground.
Death-sludge metal band from Poitiers, France, formed in 2015. They merge death metal aggression with crushing sludge weight.
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