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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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Hellish Form push doom to its most suffocating extreme, folding sludge's abrasive texture into funeral doom's glacial pace and near-unbearable weight. Formed in 2020, they embrace desolation as an art form — slow, suffocating, and strangely beautiful.
Hello Darkness is a sludge/post-metal/crust band from France, formed in 2018. They blend crushing sludge with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
Out of Philadelphia, Hellrad crush under the full weight of sludge metal, piling on slow, suffocating riffs and the kind of feedback-drenched misery that makes you feel the humidity before the storm hits. They formed in 2017 with a dedication to dragging listeners through the muck.
Sludge/stoner/doom metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2022. Their crushingly heavy blend of sludge, stoner, and doom metal delivers a suffocating wall of fuzz and distortion.
Helve is a sludge/post-metal band from Leeds, England, formed in 2015. They blend crushing sludge with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
Brutal deathcore act from Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, active since 2016. Their cyborg-themed name suits a sound blending mechanical precision with extreme metal brutality from England's east coast.
Boone, North Carolina's Hempire hit the Appalachian highlands with a fusion of sludge and stoner metal since 2022, rolling heavy riffs through cloud banks of fuzz and feedback. Mountain air never sounded this thick.
Boston's Hepatagua have been plying their trade in sludge metal since 2013, bringing the Northeast's particular strain of urban heaviness to a genre that thrives on misery and low tuning. Dense, slow, and corrosive in all the right ways.
Sludge/doom metal band from Roeselare, Belgium, formed in 2021. Their crushing low-end and oppressive atmosphere draw from the heaviest traditions of sludge and doom, delivering punishment from the West Flemish underground.
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