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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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Decidedly heavy and deliberately confrontational, this sludge metal act from Budapest traffics in tar-thick riffs and feedback-drenched nihilism. Since 2025, they've built a catalog that reflects Hungary's underappreciated metal tradition.
Hagerstown, Maryland post-metal and sludge band building expansive, emotionally charged soundscapes since 2013. Their music finds the balance between sludge's aggression and post-metal's introspective, texture-driven architecture.
Syracuse's Engineer drags sludge metal through the salt-gray winters of upstate New York, building slow, corrosive compositions out of distortion and weight since 2021. Their sound suggests infrastructure left to rust — heavy, neglected, and inevitable in its collapse.
Akron's Enhailer drifts through the hazy overlap of stoner, doom, and sludge, conjuring thick, feedback-drenched riffs and narcotic tempos suited to the Rust Belt's industrial melancholy.
Formed in Saint Paul in 2025, Enigmatus is a freshly-surfaced presence in the Midwest sludge and stoner doom scene, conjuring heavy, haze-filled sonic landscapes from the frozen north.
Boulder's Ennoea spans the slow, suffocating spectrum between death, doom, and sludge metal, dragging listeners through layers of sonic murk with the patience and gravity of a slow geological collapse.
Asheville's Enoch draws on the Blue Ridge Mountain town's fertile heavy underground, blending stoner warmth, sludge filth, and doom's glacial weight into a sound that feels deeply rooted in the Appalachian soil.
Hudson Valley's Enskye builds atmospheric sludge and post-metal into slow-rising emotional catharsis, using New York's scenic Hudson River backdrop as a spiritual canvas for expansive, heavy instrumental exploration.
A slow, punishing force out of Johnson City, Tennessee, Ent drags doom and sludge through Appalachian murk with an oppressive weight that feels geological in its patience. Their sound favors suffocating low-end over speed, letting each riff settle like sediment.
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