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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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Celestial Stag from Norfolk plays slow, earth-shaking doom-sludge with a dense, guitar-forward sound that draws on both the Southern sludge tradition and the suffocating heaviness of traditional doom. Their music moves at deliberate tempos, letting riffs breathe and crush in equal measure.
Sludge and stoner metal band from Valencia, Spain, formed in 2014. They deliver thick, fuzz-drenched heaviness from the Mediterranean coast.
Doom and sludge metal band from London, active since 2010. They deliver crushing, slow-burning heaviness from the English capital.
Doom and sludge metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2021. They deliver crushing, oppressive doom-sludge from the French capital.
Brutal death metal band from McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, delivering the genre's characteristic combination of blast beats, guttural vocals, and heavily downtuned riffing.
Doom and sludge metal band delivering the genre's slow, oppressive heaviness through down-tuned riffs and a suffocating atmosphere.
Death-sludge metal band from Vannes in Brittany, France, formed in 2018. They merge death metal aggression with sludge weight from the Morbihan coast.
Sludge metal band from the Berlin/Leipzig corridor, formed in 2022. They deliver thick, oppressive sludge from two of eastern Germany's largest cultural centers.
Cetacean is a Los Angeles, California doom and sludge metal band building massive, slow-moving compositions out of grinding riffs and oppressive low-end heaviness. Their sound evokes the oceanic enormity suggested by their name, blending Southern-inflected sludge with crushing doom.
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