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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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Sludge/post-metal band from Clisson in western France, active since 2016. Their base in the town that hosts the legendary Hellfest festival places them at the heart of French heavy music.
I the Witch is a drone/doom/sludge metal act from Lazio, Italy, active since 2017 and channeling monolithic heaviness through its doom metal framework. The project delivers oppressive, glacially paced compositions.
Iamdisease is a hardcore/thrash/sludge metal band from Ajdovščina/Črniče/Nova Gorica, Slovenia, active since 2010 and delivering crushing, suffocating heaviness from the low end. The project channels the abrasive, punishing weight of sludge metal.
A Seattle institution in the sludge underground since 2007, Iamthethorn buries listeners under slow-motion avalanches of distortion — the sound of the Pacific Northwest's grey skies transmuted into heavy, corrosive weight.
Sludge/doom metal/hardcore band from Durham in northeastern England, active since 2012. Their sound fuses crushing heaviness with hardcore energy from the cathedral city.
Icos is a sludge/doom metal act from Gothenburg, Sweden, active since 2016 and channeling monolithic heaviness through its doom metal framework. The project delivers oppressive, glacially paced compositions.
Idiot Child is a sludge metal/hardcore band from Skåne, Sweden, active since 2021 and delivering crushing, suffocating heaviness from the low end. The project channels the abrasive, punishing weight of sludge metal.
Minneapolis black/sludge metal duo formed in 2022, marrying the frozen misanthropy of black metal to the tar-thick heaviness of sludge in a way that suits the long, lightless winters of the upper Midwest.
Idlegod is a doom/sludge metal act from Prato, Italy, active since 2017 and channeling monolithic heaviness through its doom metal framework. The project delivers oppressive, glacially paced compositions.
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