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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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A Pennsylvania doom, stoner, and sludge outfit active since 1999, Moons traffic in slow, pulverizing riffs and narcotic haze — occupying the heavy, low-tuned intersection where all three genres bleed together.
Fresno's Moontrail push sludge metal into stranger territory by incorporating avant-garde elements — dissonant structures, unconventional song forms, and experimental texture — into their heavy foundation since 2013.
Out of Gulfport, Mississippi, Moose have been serving up Southern-flavored sludge metal since 2017 — grinding slow and heavy with the humidity-soaked aggression you'd expect from the Gulf Coast.
Formed in Hampstead, New Hampshire in 2024, Moral Injury fuse hardcore's confrontational urgency with sludge metal's slow-burn punishment — a combination that gives their music both immediate impact and lingering dread.
A grindcore and sludge metal act from the Yorkshire town of Selby, Morality Sanctions has been grinding out aggressive, socially conscious compositions since 2017. The band channels political frustration into short, punishing bursts of noise.
Morbid Evils is a sludge, doom, and death metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2022. They channel crushing extremity through the unholy convergence of sludge, doom, and death metal.
Morbus Kinski is a sludge metal four-piece from Chemnitz, Germany, formed in 2019, self-described as "bluntforce sludge on the wrong medication." Their releases Idiocracy and Blunt Force Boogey deliver crushing, confrontational sludge metal with an unhinged, violent edge.
A sludge metal act from Athens, More Abused formed in 2023 with a sound built on crushing, abrasive heaviness. The band brings the punishing weight of sludge to the Greek capital's underground.
Oakland's Morir merge black metal's corrosive atmosphere with the grinding physicality of sludge metal and hardcore punk, formed in 2018 and operating in the Bay Area's restlessly genre-crossing underground heavy music community.
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