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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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Halo (2017)
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Days of Our Mutation plays sludge/stoner metal from Moscow, active since 2012 and tracking humanity's slow transformation through heavy, fuzz-laden compositions. Their evolutionary-horror name frames each song as a chapter in a gradual, irreversible metamorphosis.
Rochester's Dead Bitch smear black metal's corrosive atmosphere across a sludge metal backbone, producing something uglier and more dissonant than either genre achieves alone. Since 2016, they've been one of upstate New York's most confrontational live acts.
Portland, Oregon's Dead by Dawn harness the Pacific Northwest's penchant for murky, heaviness-first music within a sludge metal framework — slow, oppressive, and thick with the city's grey-sky atmosphere.
Cincinnati's Dead Ecstasy specialize in slow-building sludge metal that weaponizes repetition and volume — the kind of music that feels like a hangover and a bruise at the same time. A recent entry in Ohio's quietly formidable heavy underground.
Rosendale, NY's Dead Empires weave progressive ambition into sludge's tar-thick foundations, building sprawling, tension-laden structures from the Hudson Valley's quiet edges. Formed in 2011, their music feels like watching something enormous collapse in slow motion.
Dead Existence is a sludge/doom metal band from London, England, active since 2007. With nearly two decades of crushing heaviness, they are veterans of London's sludge/doom scene.
Duluth, Minnesota's Dead Guy in a Swamp emerged in 2025 with drone and sludge metal perfectly suited to their city's fog-laden Lake Superior shoreline. Slow, crushing, and deliberately murky — just like the name suggests.
Houston thrash with a sludgy, punky edge. Cult classics of the late-80s Texas scene.
Dead in Montana is a sludge metal/hardcore band from Mataró, Spain, active since 2012. They fuse sludge metal's crushing weight with hardcore's raw intensity from the Catalan coast.
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