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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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Pensacola's Dark Star Coven channels the filth and fury of sludge and crust punk into something mean and swamp-soaked, with a loose, punk-inflected heaviness that has been rattling Florida's panhandle since 2017.
Columbia, South Carolina's Darkentries traffic in the slow corrosion of sludge metal layered beneath post-metal's atmospheric swell. Still a very new entity formed in 2026, they signal a promising addition to the Palmetto State's heavy underground.
Woodinville, Washington's Darkmysticwoods drag sludge metal's thick, tar-slow heaviness through a hardcore framework, resulting in something lurching and confrontational since 2015. The Pacific Northwest setting fits the project's murky, forest-drenched aesthetic perfectly.
Darqo is a Belgian sludge/doom metal and noise act from the small West Flemish town of Lichtervelde, crafting abrasive, low-frequency compositions that blend crushing heaviness with walls of harsh noise. Their sound strips music to its most primal elements: weight, distortion, and volume.
Daunt is a doom/sludge metal band from Bremen, Germany, formed in 2017. They deliver crushing, slow-burning heaviness through monolithic sludge riffs and doom-laden atmospheres.
Dausa is a black, doom, and sludge metal band from Vilnius, Lithuania, formed in 2019. The project merges black metal's atmosphere with doom and sludge metal's crushing weight from the Baltic underground.
Dawn to Come is a post-metal, progressive, and sludge metal band from Presov, Slovakia, formed in 2011. The project blends post-metal atmospheres with progressive and sludge elements.
Kansas City's Dawncrusher haul through sludge and doom metal with the kind of grimy, midwest-bred weight that sounds like it was mixed in a flood-prone basement. Formed in 2020, they carry the torch of slow, miserable heaviness with evident devotion to the cause.
Atlanta's Day Old Man traffic in the sludge and doom tradition with a noise rock edge that makes their music feel lived-in and dangerous — something grown from the heat and frustration of the South. Formed in 2014, they belong to a lineage of heavy Southern bands that wears exhaustion like armor.
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