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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/doom metal band from Manchester, formed in 2026 and representing the newest wave of the city's heavy underground. Their sound merges the crushing slowness of doom with sludge metal's abrasive textures and thick distortion.
Tacoma's Knuckle Dragger has been dragging sludge and doom through the South Sound since 2016. Fitting for a city with a gritty, blue-collar identity, their music is punishingly slow, low-tuned, and unapologetically heavy in the tradition of the Pacific Northwest's sludge lineage.
Sludge/doom metal/metalcore band from Tornio on the Finnish-Swedish border, formed in 2021 and delivering crushing heaviness from the Arctic Circle. Their collapse-themed name matches the weight of their genre-crossing extremity.
On the warpath since 2014, this Linköping Sludge Metal outfit delivers tar-thick riffs and feedback-drenched nihilism. Their place within the Gothenburg school's homeland speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Burlington, Vermont's Komodo VT has been fusing sludge and death metal since 2021 in one of New England's most unlikely metal cities. Their heaviness carries the cold, grinding weight of Vermont winters — slow, suffocating, and harder than the surrounding landscape suggests it should be.
Sludge doom metal band founded in 2004 in Sweden's Småland region, on hiatus since 2017 and returning in 2026. Their discography — Counting Heartbeats, Shadows of the Shapeless, and the 40-minute Sole Creation on Agonia Records — delivers crushing, atmospheric compositions in extended four-track formats.
A product of the tiny nation at the crossroads of Germanic and Slavic metal, this Novo Mesto-based sludge metal and stoner metal act channels desert-baked tonality and psychedelic haze over lumbering rhythms. Active since 2017, their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Athenian sludge/doom metal band self-described as having been "born, bred, drunk and stoned in Athens, Greece," active for over a decade since 2013. Their self-titled album was released on Fuzz Ink Records, channeling heavy sludge, stoner, and doom through the gritty lens of the Greek underground.
Sludge/groove metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, active since 2016 and merging sludge metal's abrasive heaviness with groove metal's rhythmic drive. Their sound carries the gritty intensity of Belfast's underground metal scene.
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