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Featured Album
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 band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2009. They deliver thick, oppressive sludge from the Finnish capital.
Doom and sludge metal band from Oxford, England, formed in 2016. They deliver crushing doom-sludge from the historic university city.
Fresno doom and sludge metal band dredging up slow, corrosive heaviness from California's Central Valley underground — suffocating riffs, tortured vocals, and a deliberately punishing pace.
Black-sludge metal band from Scotland, formed in 2023. They fuse black metal darkness with sludge metal's oppressive weight.
Los Angeles-based Crom cast an unusually wide net across doom, sludge, grind, power, and thrash, resulting in a chaotic and unpredictable strain of heavy music from the SoCal underground.
Raleigh doom/sludge duo CroMagnon wield low-tuned, prehistoric heaviness — primitive in tone but deliberate in execution, drawing on the slow-burn intensity of the Southern metal underground.
Lexington, Kentucky groove/sludge outfit Crone channel the Southern underground's taste for thick, swampy riffs and churning mid-tempo aggression into a hard-edged and visceral sound.
Minneapolis doom/drone/sludge band Crone build extended, suffocating soundscapes from the ground up, embracing the glacial pacing and tonal density of the heaviest strains of underground metal.
Manning, South Carolina death/doom/sludge outfit Crone Bog drag listeners through mire and rot, stacking funereal slow riffs with the decomposing murk of old-school death metal.
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