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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Stoner/sludge/doom metal act from Cherkasy launched in 2025, delivering fuzz-drenched heaviness from central Ukraine. Their triple-pronged approach channels the crushing weight of all three subgenres.
Originally formed in 2002 with ties to Phoenix, Arizona, Graves at Sea relocated to Portland, Oregon and built a slow-burning reputation across splits and EPs released through Southern Lord and 20 Buck Spin before a 2008 breakup and subsequent 2012 reunion. Their long-awaited debut full-length The Curse That Is finally arrived in 2016 on Relapse Records, a crushing hour-plus of sludge and doom metal nearly fifteen years in the making. The band drew on the Oregon and Oakland heavy underground, drawing comparisons to Eyehategod and Electric Wizard while maintaining a distinctly bleak Pacific Northwest character.
San Diego's Graveseer, formed as recently as 2025, traffic in the slow-creeping territory of sludge-doom, building visions out of distortion and dread. Their music is prophetic in its patience — each riff arriving like an omen rather than a blow.
Graveslime is a stoner/sludge metal band from Reykjavik, active since 2003. Over two decades they have delivered heavy, sludge-drenched stoner metal from the Icelandic capital, making them one of the island's most enduring heavy acts.
Graveyhard is a sludge/stoner metal band from Pontremoli in the Massa-Carrara province of Tuscany, formed in 2018. They deliver heavy stoner sludge from the Lunigiana region at the Tuscan-Ligurian border.
Greasus is a stoner/sludge metal band from Helsingborg, Sweden, active since 2017 and delivering heavy, fuzz-laden riffs from the Øresund coast. The project channels crushing sludge through a stoner haze.
Great Attractor is an instrumental progressive metal band from Mérida, Spain, formed in 2013, fusing styles ranging from stoner and sludge to avant-garde and post-rock. Their release Live at the Bujío (2024) captures their hour-long uninterrupted audiovisual performance across twelve compositions.
Nashville's Great Unclean Ones drag doom and sludge through the gutter with deliberate, punishing force — riffs that move like slow-rolling thunder and vocals soaked in filth. Since 2019 they've made miserable music in the best possible sense.
Virginia's Green deal in the heavy, murky end of sludge metal — slow tempos, distortion thick enough to choke on, and an unshakeable sense of dread. Since 2019, they've been letting the weight accumulate rather than trying to outrun it.
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