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Facas is a two-piece sludge metal band from Curitiba, Brazil, consisting of Jow (Jonathan Rissi) on guitar and vocals and Michael Wilseque on drums. Their 2020 self-titled album was recorded almost entirely live during two sessions at Estúdio Sabine in Curitiba, capturing seven tracks of hypnotic, hook-driven sludge and was released through Crocodilo Discos.
Portland's Facedowninshit have been hauling sludge metal through hardcore's gutter since 2006, building a sound as confrontational and unglamorous as the name suggests.
Chicago's Faces of the Bog have been constructing psychedelic, progressive sludge-doom since 2016, blending the Windy City's experimental instincts with the heavy emotional weight of doom and sludge.
Out of Mathews, Louisiana, Factor 8 blend groove metal's driving rhythms with the thick, swampy heaviness of sludge metal — a combination that wears the bayou in every note since 2018.
Fading Waves is a progressive sludge/post-metal band from Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, active since 2011. Over a decade they have developed a sophisticated approach to atmospheric heavy music, blending sludge weight with post-metal dynamics from the Don River metropolis.
Los Angeles's Faetooth occupies the intersection of doom, sludge, and post-metal — a trio of subgenres that reward patience and reward volume — building their layered, emotionally heavy sound since forming in 2019.
Detroit's Failed takes the city's legacy of industrial grime and blue-collar despair and channels it into sludge metal, a genre that fits the Motor City like a work-worn glove; the band has been grinding since 2019.
Fall of Efrafa is a sludge/post-metal/crust band from Brighton, England. Named after a warren from Richard Adams' "Watership Down," the band creates politically charged sludge and post-metal.
South Carolina's Fall of Gnosis fuses the corrosive heft of sludge metal with death metal's violent precision, arriving on the scene in 2023 with an immediately caustic identity. The pairing lends their music an abrasive, tar-thick quality that rewards patient listeners willing to sit in the muck.
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