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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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Richmond's Empty Hands collide hardcore's blunt-force urgency with sludge metal's grinding weight, a bruising combination forged in a city with deep roots in both traditions.
Doom and sludge metal band from Oulu in northern Finland, formed in 2017. They channel crushing heaviness from Finland's far north.
Hailing from Toutle, Washington — a small town in the shadow of Mount St. Helens — Encountered deliver sludge-drenched doom metal with the slow, inevitable weight of a lava field. Formed in 2016, the landscape seems to seep into every note.
Suffocating Sludge / Doom Metal out of Texas.
Nebraska's Endless Bummer smears drone, sludge, and doom into a suffocating slow-motion dirge that feels as flat and relentless as the Great Plains themselves. Formed in 2013, their music is the sound of existential weight given a distortion pedal.
Doom, drone, and sludge metal band from Bordeaux, France formed in 2016, affiliated with Dry Cough Records and several other labels. Their six-release catalog includes Circle the Gold and the split with Uur, delivering crushing heaviness from southwestern France.
Doom, groove, and sludge metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland formed in 2020. Their 2020 self-titled debut on Inverse Records features nine tracks blending atmospheric and death metal elements, garnering strong support from over 80 Bandcamp backers.
Chicago death/sludge hybrid that drags the Windy City's noise-rock and post-hardcore DNA through the mire of sludge metal and death metal since 2016. Their sound is the product of a city where extreme music has always been genre-agnostic.
The Russian city of Moscow serves as headquarters for this doom metal, progressive metal, and sludge metal operation, whose arsenal includes Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
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