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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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Portland, Oregon's Mursa channels the city's deep well of heavy music into caustic sludge metal built on slow, punishing riffs and abrasive texture. Active since 2013, the band embodies the grimy, feedback-laden aesthetic that defines the Pacific Northwest's harder underground.
Baltimore, Maryland's Musket Hawk mash grindcore's explosive brevity against the tar-thick riffs of sludge metal, producing something uglier and more chaotic than either genre alone would permit. Since 2013, they've been a fixture in Baltimore's exceptionally fertile heavy music underground.
An atmospheric sludge and post-metal band from Aarschot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, active from 2006 to 2015 and revived in 2020, signed to Funtime Records. Their catalog includes the seven-track 'Ebb & Flow' (2013), compared favorably to Cult of Luna for its intense narrative arc, and the recording 'Set the Woods on Fire / Catharsis' (2020), which incorporated guest vocal arrangements by Belgian composer Déhà.
Brooklyn's Mutant Scum drag sludge metal through New York's gutter, mixing the genre's tar-slow heaviness with punk's frantic energy and street-level aggression. Since 2015, they've added a properly filthy strain of noise to a borough overflowing with heavy underground acts.
Brooklyn's Mutoid Man fuse sludge and stoner metal into something swaggering and overpowering — thick, groove-laden riffs married to a rock sensibility that keeps their sound dynamic and weirdly infectious since 2014.
Formed in 2025 in Winchester, Virginia, Muttering Bog dwell in the murky overlap of doom, sludge, and stoner metal, conjuring the kind of slow, oppressive heaviness that matches the name's imagery of still, dark water.
MWWB is a psychedelic stoner, sludge, and doom metal act from Wrexham in North Wales, delivering expansive, mind-altering heaviness since 2021. The band layers psychedelic textures over crushing doom foundations, creating immersive sonic landscapes.
My Master the Sun is a stoner/sludge/doom metal act from Lisbon, active since 2014. The band channels solar worship into heavy, sun-baked compositions from the Portuguese capital.
Nashville's My Wall stacks the crushing weight of doom and sludge metal atop a stoner-rock foundation, building slow-burning riffs soaked in fuzz and Southern grit that grind forward with deliberate, hypnotic heaviness.
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