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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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Mother Knife is a blackened sludge metal band from Manchester, England, formed in 2025. They fuse blackened fury with crushing sludge metal.
Mother Susurrus is a psychedelic sludge and post-metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2010. They fuse psychedelic textures with crushing sludge and post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
Boston sludge metal institution Motherboar have been a persistent presence in the New England underground since 2011, built on crusty, feedback-laced heaviness and the kind of colossal bottom-end that makes floors shake at small venues.
Chicago's Motherless are a brand new entity formed in 2025, working in experimental doom/sludge territory that pushes against genre convention — early activity suggests an interest in texture and dissonance over conventional song structure.
Mothertrucker is a stoner, sludge, and doom metal band from Birmingham, England, active since 2004. With two decades of activity, they deliver crushing stoner-sludge-doom from the West Midlands.
Charleston, South Carolina's Mothmother smash sludge metal and grindcore into a volatile collision of punishment and noise, channeling the coastal South's heat and humidity into bursts of chaotic, caustic heaviness. Active since 2017, they are one of the more abrasive and uncompromising acts to emerge from the Lowcountry underground.
Mould is a sludge/doom metal band from Terneuzen, the Netherlands, formed in 2020. They channel crushing sludge-doom through abrasive riffs and oppressive weight.
A death/sludge metal act from Emmen in Drenthe, Mouldwarp emerged in 2026 with a name referencing the archaic English word for mole. The band pairs death metal aggression with sludge's crushing weight.
Brooklyn doom and sludge metal outfit Mountain God have been hauling monumental, slow-moving riff structures through New York City's underground since 2013, bringing an almost devotional weight to music that feels both ancient and urban. Their sound sits at the slow, heavy end of the New York metal spectrum, indebted equally to Cathedral and Eyehategod.
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