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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Budapest-based band that evolved from post-hardcore origins into doom, sludge, and post-metal, active since 2012. Their stylistic transformation reflects a deepening heaviness across more than a decade of activity.
Sludge/doom metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2014. Their occult-tinged name accompanies crushing sludge and doom from the Swedish capital.
Riga progressive sludge metal act active since 2016, a rare representative of Latvia's small but adventurous heavy music scene. Their approach layers progressive complexity over sludge metal's corrosive foundation, resulting in compositions that are both intellectually demanding and physically heavy.
Stoner/doom/sludge metal band from Ternopil, western Ukraine, formed in 2024. Their triple-genre approach delivers maximum heaviness from the Galician city.
Thunderous Blackened Sludge Metal from Dallas/Denton, Texas / New York, New York.
Heavy Sludge / Groove Metal out of Texas.
Athens-based Okwaho generates punishing sludge and doom metal with a dense, low-end-heavy sound that favors crushing riffs and suffocating atmosphere. Their primal approach to heaviness channels the spirit of Eyehategod and Crowbar through a Greek lens.
Seattle's Old Iron drag doom and sludge through the Pacific Northwest rain with the heavy patience of a city that knows how to let grief breathe. Formed in 2014, they've built a sound that's slow, corrosive, and deeply committed to heaviness as atmosphere.
Sudbury's Old Man Lizard cranks out fuzz-drenched stoner and sludge metal with a freewheeling, jam-oriented approach that channels the spirit of the desert rock tradition. Their thick, distorted grooves and laid-back swagger recall Kyuss and Weedeater.
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