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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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London-based sludge/post-metal band active since 2007, releasing their album 'Part Island' on Debemur Morti Productions. Their sound weaves emotive metallic power with dream-state vulnerability, combining melodic black metal, contemplative doom, and shoegaze with acoustic guitar, piano, and analogue synthesizer.
Houston sludge outfit Lavos drag their riffs through the bayou, piling on layers of feedback and distortion with the swampy menace that only Texas can fully deliver.
Hungarian sludge/groove metal band from Budapest, delivering abrasive heaviness since 2011. Their resurrection-themed name contrasts with the punishing, down-tuned character of their sludge-groove sound.
Crushing Sludge Metal from San Antonio.
Kansas City's Leech have been parasitically draining the life from the sludge metal template since 1997, one feedback-drenched, slow-motion assault at a time.
Slovenian/Dutch sludge/doom metal band originating in Postojna, now based in Nijmegen, delivering crushing heaviness since 2010. Their parasitic name channels the draining, consuming character of their trans-European sludge doom.
Charleston, West Virginia's Left Behind drag sludge and stoner metal through a metalcore filter, letting the Appalachian weight of their hometown seep into every lumbering riff. Slow-burning and heavy, they have been at it since 2013 with no signs of lightening up.
Detroit's Left in Ruin have been channeling the city's rust-belt grit through Southern and sludge metal since 2007, pairing down-tuned dirges with a muscular, working-class heaviness. Long-running and uncompromising, they are a fixture of the Midwest heavy underground.
Croatian sludge/doom metal band from Karlovac, delivering crushing heaviness since 2014. Their name captures the desperate, abandoned character of their sludge-drenched doom.
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