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Sludge/gothic/death metal band from Palafolls, Spain, formed in 2023. Their genre-spanning approach blends sludge heaviness, gothic atmosphere, and death metal brutality from the Catalan coast.
Ocean Springs, Mississippi's Hallelujah Gangbang match their provocative name with sludge and doom metal dredged straight from the Gulf Coast swamp — slow, mean, and spiritually filthy since 2016.
New York's Hallux carve out a sludge/doom sound built on weight and repetition — riffs that settle in and refuse to leave, tempos that drag the listener through the muck. Formed in 2018, location unspecified, but the music speaks clearly enough.
Atlanta's Halmos have been dragging riffs through the Georgia heat since 2012, fusing the molasses weight of sludge metal with the hazy warmth of stoner grooves. Their sound sits in the slow, crushing pocket where feedback meets sweat.
Formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1994 as In Sect before adopting the Halo name in 1997, the band developed a confrontational sound rooted in drone, sludge, and industrial metal in the tradition of Swans and Godflesh. They relocated to London and released a series of albums including Massive Corporate Disease (1999) and Degree Zero Point of Implosion (2000) that explored themes of societal corruption and post-industrial despair with grinding sonic density. Now operating as a duo of Skye Klein and Robert Allen, Halo have been signed to Relapse Records.
Based in Oslo, this sludge metal/hardcore punk project has been a fixture of Norway's underground since 2025. Their work contributes a distinctive voice to their regional underground scene.
Heavy metal outfit from Strasbourg in Alsace, active since 2016. Their enigmatic name wraps classic heavy metal traditions in a veil of intrigue from the Franco-Germanic borderlands.
Hand of Omega is a sludge/doom metal band from Stoke-on-Trent, England, formed in 2020. They channel crushing sludge-doom through abrasive riffs and oppressive weight.
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