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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Columbus, Ohio outfit Cthultists blend the brutality of death metal with the sludgy weight of post-hardcore influences, creating dense, suffocating music soaked in occult atmosphere. Their name signals their dedication to the dark and abyssal end of the genre.
Black-doom-sludge metal band from Lappeenranta, Finland, emerging in 2025. They merge black metal darkness with doom-sludge weight from the Finnish-Russian borderlands.
Sacramento, California's Ctrl+All+Delete operate at the collision of black metal atmosphere and sludge metal weight, crafting dissonant, chaotic music that feels like a system-wide failure. Their sound is abrasive and disorienting by design.
Portland, Oregon's Cue the Sun blend black metal's coldness with stoner and sludge metal's slow, heavy weight, creating music that is both oppressive and psychedelic. Their Pacific Northwest sound carries the region's trademark blend of beauty and bleakness.
Doom and sludge metal band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2009. They deliver thick, oppressive doom-sludge from the Catalan capital.
Phoenix, Arizona doom/sludge outfit Culldron cook up thick, sweltering metal that mirrors the scorching heat of the Sonoran Desert. Their heavy, low-tuned sound drags and churns with relentless desert oppressiveness.
Sludge metal band from Grimsby, England, formed in 2017. They deliver thick, oppressive sludge from the Lincolnshire coast.
Chattanooga's Cult of Judas smear industrial grime over a foundation of lurching sludge metal, wringing out a sound that is as mechanically hostile as it is heavy. Their 2016 release Evolutionary Level Above Human showcases a band willing to push the genre into deliberately unsettling, post-industrial territory.
Post-metal and sludge act from Umeå, active since 2001. Cult of Luna is one of Sweden's most internationally acclaimed post-metal bands, pioneering atmospheric, cinematic heaviness over more than two decades.
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