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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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Catatomic combines the slow, monolithic weight of doom metal with the filthy, distorted sludge of post-hardcore-influenced metal, producing a suffocatingly heavy sound suited to Wisconsin's cold and isolated atmosphere. Feedback, down-tuning, and deliberate pacing define their approach.
Experimental doom-sludge band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2021. They push doom and sludge into unconventional territory through avant-garde approaches.
Huntington Beach extreme metal collective fusing black metal, death metal, grindcore, and sludge into a chaotic, genre-defying hybrid that resists easy categorization.
Louisville sludge metal trio rooted in true sludge grime with infusions of doom, thrash, and punk, recording their punishing debut in an abandoned Catholic church for maximum sonic oppression.
Brooklyn sludge metal outfit with ex-members of Nausea and Born Against, churning out discordant, noise-rock-infected heaviness blending hardcore abrasion, sludge crawl, and death metal ugliness.
Death-sludge-thrash metal band from Tampere, Finland, active since 2012. They blend three aggressive genres into a fierce, heavy assault from Finland's third-largest city.
Sludge metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne, England, formed in 2020. They deliver caustic, oppressive sludge from the Tyneside.
Founded by ex-Cattle Decapitation bassist Troy Oftedal, Cave Bastard forge a savage hybrid of death metal, sludge, and hardcore from San Diego with relentless abrasive heaviness.
Phoenix black/death/sludge project combining sludge-drenched atmosphere with raw black metal aggression, firmly situated in the underground extreme metal tradition.
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