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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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Italian sludge/doom metal band from Florence, delivering crushing, abrasive heaviness since 2008. Their name, meaning 'the bill' or 'the reckoning,' signals the punishing weight of their Tuscan doom.
Spanish atmospheric sludge/doom metal band from A Coruna, delivering crushing heaviness in Spanish since 2013. Their debut 'Holons' features four sprawling tracks of doom and sludge, with compositions stretching beyond ten minutes.
Belgian sludge metal band from Ghent formed in 2021, describing their sound as an antidote against self-suffocation and quietism. Their discography includes the 'Battering Ram' EP and the 'Disorder' full-length, delivering heavy, cathartic sludge.
Italian sludge/doom metal and noise band from Alessandria, merging abrasive extremity since 2016. Their name, meaning 'the guilt,' channels moral weight through crushing, noise-infused doom.
Fort Collins, Colorado's Ladder Match fuse sludge metal's lurching misery with grindcore's explosive brevity, producing something that hits unpredictably hard. Formed in 2023, they're one of the Rockies' more unusual extreme offerings.
Richmond, Virginia's Lair descend into funeral doom and sludge territory so low and slow it feels geological, pressing listeners into the earth one agonizing riff at a time. Formed in 2019, they've become one of the South's most crushing doom acts.
Chicago's Lair of the Minotaur conjure mythic brutality through a savage blend of thrash, doom, and sludge that sounds like ancient warfare translated into amplified noise. Since 2005 they've been one of the Midwest's most ferocious live acts.
Buffalo, Wyoming's Lament Cityscape build dystopian soundscapes from sludge, post-metal, doom, and industrial noise — music that sounds like a city collapsing in slow motion. Active since 2004, they're one of America's most inventive architects of sonic decay.
Polish sludge/doom metal band from Wroclaw, delivering crushing, abrasive heaviness since 2020. Their name channels death imagery through the punishing weight of Silesian sludge doom.
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