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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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Deafhex is a sludge/doom/post-metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2019. They create massive, slow-building walls of sound that merge sludge, doom, and post-metal into overwhelming heaviness.
Minneapolis's Death Blossom cultivate a suffocating garden of blackened doom and sludge, dragging the listener through crawling tempos, howling vocals, and frost-bitten dissonance. Since 2017 the trio has been refining a sound that feels equal parts suffocation and desolation.
Death Crew is a death metal and sludge metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2021. The project blends death metal with sludge weight.
Sacramento's Death Penalty drag sludge metal through the Central Valley heat — thick, slow, and coated in grime that sticks to the ribs. Formed in 2014, they trade the region's agricultural bleakness for crushing low-end brutality.
Death Watch is a sludge/doom metal band from Aberdeen, Scotland, active since 2013. They keep death watch through crushing sludge and doom from the Granite City.
Austin's Death Will Tremble drag doom and sludge metal through the Texas heat until everything warps under the weight — slow, corrosive, and built to last. Active since 2016, they're a fixture in the city's heavier underground.
Ridgefield, Washington's Death Wins traffic in sludge metal that sounds like the Pacific Northwest's grey skies finally collapsed — slow, oppressive, and saturated with feedback. Formed in 2023, they hit hard for a young band.
Tacoma's Deathbed Confessions smash sludge metal's tar-thick heaviness into hardcore's convulsive urgency, producing something that sounds like a breakdown in every sense of the word. They've been a force on the South Sound heavy scene since 2012.
Seattle's DeathCave crawl through sludge and doom metal with the slow inevitability of the city's grey winters — oppressive, feedback-drenched, and clearly in no hurry to let you surface. Active since 2019.
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