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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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New Orleans sludge and doom act Haarp draws heavily from the murk and misery of their city's storied extreme metal tradition. Since regrouping in 2014, they've built a reputation on crushing low-end riffs and an oppressive, swamp-soaked heaviness.
Habitus is a sludge/post-metal band from Belgrade, Serbia, formed in 2012. They blend crushing sludge with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
From Lyon in France, this post-black/sludge metal act brings relentless intensity since 2012. Cold atmospheres and venomous vocals define their particular approach to the genre.
Knoxville, Tennessee's Hag Bastard throws sludge, stoner, and doom into a single foul-mouthed brew that feels native to the American South's heat and humidity. Since 2022, they've been one of the more colorfully named acts in the region's underground.
New Jersey's Hagmug has been slouching through the swamps of sludge metal since 2015, their downtuned riffing and misanthropic crawl fitting perfectly within the genre's uglier traditions. A name that matches the music.
Tulsa's Hagswine has been wallowing in stoner and sludge metal since 2013, combining the two genres' shared appetite for fuzz, filth, and low-tuned punishment. Oklahoma may not be on the metal map, but they've been making a case for it for over a decade.
Hailing from the small coastal community of Moyock, North Carolina, Hail!Hornet have been grinding out heavy sludge metal since 2011. Thick, churning, and corrosive — the kind of sound that feels like standing too close to a transformer fire.
Denver's Haitzuloan — their name drawn from the Basque word for "cave" — write sludge and doom metal that genuinely sounds like something dredged from underground. Formed in 2019, they're one of the heavier entries in Denver's already formidable heavy underground.
Pasadena's Half Moon Codex operate at the intersection of sludge, drone, and doom — long-form compositions that move with the patience of tectonic plates and the weight to match. Formed in 2018, they're a fixture in the Southern California heavy underground.
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