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One of Portland, Maine's longer-running heavy acts, Eastern Spell has been casting their particular brand of sludge-doom since 2013 — dense, slow-burning songs where the misery accumulates like snowpack.
Chicago's Edgar Allan Ectoplasm have one of heavy music's better names, and they back it up with a lurching, fog-thick blend of doom, stoner, and sludge metal that evokes humid dread — active since 2013.
Champaign, Illinois is not a city anyone expects to produce sludge, but Edna — with that deceptively unassuming name — has been dragging down midwestern tempos with thick, fuzz-drenched stoner weight since 2017.
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Death, doom, and sludge metal band from Florence, Italy active since 2014. They craft crushing heaviness from the Renaissance city.
Black/sludge metal act from Silkeborg, Denmark, merging Nordic black metal with the heavy, swampy weight of sludge since 2016. Named after the Norse giant who heralded Ragnarok, their sound carries apocalyptic weight.
Active off and on since 1999. One of Austin's earlier sludge/stoner acts, predating much of the city's current heavy scene.
Austin's Egypt trades in sludge and stoner metal with a Texas-sized thickness, formed in 2009 in a city whose creative underground has always made room for bands willing to slow down and get filthy.
A product of Poland's titan-grade death metal scene, this Rzeszów-based death metal and sludge metal act channels Southern-fried heaviness with hardcore punk's confrontational energy. Active since 2022, the combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
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