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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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Progressive metal and sludge outfit from the Galician coastal towns of Moana and Bueu, Spain, active since 2003. They deliver heavy, textured compositions drawing on over two decades of experience in the Spanish underground.
Seattle's Entmoot — named after the deliberate gathering of Tolkien's Ents — moves with measured, crushing intention through stoner and sludge metal, building monolithic riffs that reward patience. A young band with an ancient weight to their sound.
Budapest's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this doom metal, experimental, and sludge metal unit is among them — wielding glacial, punishment-dealing grooves wallowing in distortion. Uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels death metal and sludge metal with a focus on tar-thick riffs and feedback-drenched nihilism. Formed in 2013, based in Bologna, every recording pushes a little further into uncharted sonic territory.
Doom and sludge metal band from Lamia in central Greece, active since 2016. They deliver crushing heaviness from the Fthiotida region.
Muskegon, Michigan's Ephus craft atmospheric sludge metal soaked in the industrial melancholy of the Great Lakes shoreline, building dense walls of distortion and fog since 2007.
Devastating Deathcore from San Antonio.
Firmly rooted in sludge metal, this British actfrom Norwich delivers glacial, punishment-dealing grooves wallowing in distortion without compromise. They've been at it since 2024, and uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
A product of the birthplace of heavy metal itself, this England-based doom metal and sludge metal act channels Southern-fried heaviness with hardcore punk's confrontational energy. Active since 2025, the combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
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