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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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Philadelphia's Cave Weta build massive post-metal structures from sludge-soaked riffs, channeling the patient heaviness of Neurosis and Isis into slow-burning, emotionally corrosive soundscapes.
Eau Claire's Caveat fuse crust punk's raw, d-beat urgency with sludge metal's tar-thick low end, resulting in a grinding, oppressive sound that moves between crusty blasts and suffocating slow-downs.
Groove and sludge metal band from Dresden, Germany, formed in 2022. They deliver thick, heavy grooves and sludge-drenched riffs from the Elbe River city.
Oakland, Maryland's Cavern blend progressive metal's structural ambition with sludge heaviness and thrash metal's rhythmic aggression, producing a genre-spanning sound that shifts between cerebral complexity and sheer sonic weight.
Oshkosh's Cavernlight are a deeply mournful doom/drone/post-metal project whose music unfolds like an extended grief ritual — slow, crushing, and suffused with genuine desolation alongside acts like Thou and Bell Witch.
Toccoa, Georgia's Cebo))) operate in the drone-sludge tradition the triple-parenthesis suffix implies, building slow, bass-heavy walls of sound from repetitive, ritualistic riffing and cavernous low-end resonance.
Doom and sludge metal band from Castellon de la Plana, Spain, formed in 2014. They deliver crushing, oppressive doom-sludge from the Mediterranean coast.
CELESTE formed in Lyon, France in 2005, emerging from that city's hardcore punk scene and gradually fusing black metal harshness, sludge heaviness, and post-hardcore dynamics into an unrelenting and emotionally suffocating sound. The band released their debut full-length Nihiliste(s) in 2008 on Denovali Records and followed it with a series of similarly dense French-language records, before signing to Nuclear Blast for Assassine(s) in 2022. All of their albums carry stripped grammatical titles that function as singular aesthetic statements.
Doom, drone, and sludge metal band from Zweibrucken, Germany, active since 2015. They create massive, slow-moving walls of sound that explore the heaviest extremes of low-tempo metal.
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