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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Speed metal act from Birmingham, active since 2013. Their systematic name matches precise, high-velocity compositions channeling the spirit of classic speed metal from the birthplace of heavy music.
Doom/drone/sludge metal band from Madrid, Spain, active since 2010. Their suffocating blend of drone, doom, and sludge creates an overwhelming wall of sound from the Spanish capital.
Named for the Welsh concept of a longing for something irretrievably lost, Alabama's Hiraeth bring groove metal's propulsive rhythms and sludge's corrosive weight to bear on an emotional register that matches the word. Out of Calera since 2019, they hit hard and leave a mark.
Belgian sludge/post-metal band from Kortrijk, active from 2011 until their termination. Featuring Matthias Halsberghe on guitars and vocals, their releases Secretvm/Veritas and a self-titled album delivered punishing sludge-laden post-metal from the West Flemish underground.
Philadelphia's Hivelords collapse the boundaries between black metal, doom, and sludge into a dense, oppressive mass that borrows from each tradition without fully belonging to any of them. Since 2011 they've occupied a particularly unpleasant corner of the extreme metal underground, and they seem comfortable there.
Black metal project from Normandy, active since 2023. Their compositions draw on the cold Atlantic climate and medieval history of France's northern coastland.
Hln is a sludge/doom metal band from Caen, France, formed in 2021. They channel crushing sludge-doom through abrasive riffs and oppressive weight.
Sludge/Post-Metal outfit rooted in Ommen, channeling raw underground intensity since 2019. Energetic performances and committed songwriting define their approach.
Cullman, Alabama's Hog Mountin drag sludge and doom through the Southern dirt, conjuring slow, oppressive riffs that feel pulled from the red clay itself. Active since 2013, they embody the bleary, low-end heaviness of the American South.
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