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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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Columbia, SC doom and sludge act channeling the swampy, southern-tinged heaviness that the region breeds naturally, building slow-crawling riffs into dense, oppressive walls of sound with a mythology-laced edge.
One of the Pacific Northwest's more unusual extreme metal acts, combining grindcore's frantic brutality with sludge's slow toxicity and unexpected power metal elements into a genuinely bizarre and unpredictable listening experience.
Binghamton post-metal and sludge act whose drawn-out, crushing compositions balance atmospheric weight against oppressive low-end heaviness.
Spokane sludge and stoner metal band built on hazy, amplifier-worshipping riffs and the slow, suffocating heaviness that defines the Pacific Northwest heavy underground.
Progressive sludge-stoner-thrash hybrid from Moscow, formed in 2019. Casamatta blends multiple extreme subgenres into a genre-defying whole.
Post-metal and sludge band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2022. They blend expansive post-metal dynamics with crushing sludge weight from the Catalan capital.
Minneapolis's Castle combine doom's slow, ritualistic tempos with sludge metal's distorted, feedback-laden aggression, crafting a sound that lurches forward under the weight of its own oppressive heaviness.
Doom and sludge metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2020. They deliver thick, oppressive heaviness from the Finnish capital.
Progressive sludge metal act from Vale de Cambra in northern Portugal, active since 2008. Catacombe has spent nearly two decades merging progressive complexity with sludge weight from the Aveiro district.
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