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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Memphis' Crowlord plants doom and sludge metal deep in Tennessee soil, drawing from both traditions to deliver slow, crushing music that carries the weight of the Delta. Their sound is as heavy as the city's history.
Sludge-thrash metal band from Versailles, France, formed in 2016. They merge sludge weight with thrash aggression from the Parisian suburbs.
West Virginia trio Crown Vic drag death metal's brutality through the swampy weight of sludge and the confrontational energy of hardcore. The Parkersburg band produces crushingly heavy material built on feedback-laden grooves and raw hostility.
Evansville, Indiana's Crows of Odin occupy the bleak intersection of doom, sludge, and post-metal, building cavernous soundscapes from feedback, deliberate tempos, and a mythology-steeped atmosphere. Their music feels ancient and oppressively heavy.
Doom-sludge metal band from Potsdam, Germany, active since 2006. With nearly two decades of crushing heaviness, Crowskin are veterans of the Brandenburg doom-sludge scene.
Miami doom and sludge outfit dragging Southern heaviness through the swampy heat of South Florida. Their music is slow, crushing, and suffocating — built for maximum punishment.
Oakland doom and sludge outfit channeling the Bay Area's long tradition of heavy, slow, and punishing music. Their sound is thick and oppressive, built on feedback-drenched low-end devastation.
Pennsylvania death-doom and sludge act layering the suffocating weight of doom with the morbid darkness of death metal. They operate at the slow, crushing intersection where both genres feel most punishing.
San Antonio doom and sludge metal band wallowing in the slow, oppressive heaviness that Texas's extreme underground does so well. Their music is deliberately paced and emotionally bleak.
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