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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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Manchester's Oolith layers post-metal's dynamic architecture over doom and sludge metal's tectonic heaviness, creating compositions that shift between crushing weight and expansive atmosphere. Their patient, crescendo-driven approach recalls Neurosis and Cult of Luna.
Athens sludge metal act formed in 2023, dragging tarry, feedback-drenched heaviness from the Greek capital's underground. Their corrosive approach strips sludge to its most abrasive, confrontational essence.
Birmingham's Opium Lord crafts monolithic doom and sludge metal with a psychedelic edge, creating dense, hallucinatory compositions that move at glacial speeds. Their massive tone and hypnotic repetition evoke a drugged-out heaviness reminiscent of Eyehategod and Bongripper.
Czech psychedelic doom/sludge metal band from Prague, delivering mind-expanding heaviness since 2018. Self-described as 'psychedelic sludge from Prague,' their catalog including 'Godskin' and 'Black Veins Ritual' channels narcotic, hallucinatory darkness.
Sludge metal and noise project from Fossano in Italy's Cuneo province, active since 2018. Their substance-themed name frames their corrosive blend of sludge heaviness and noise experimentation.
Orate are a stoner/grunge outfit from Santiago, Chile who have been active since 2004, drawing on grunge, indie rock, and stoner influences in their songwriting. They released a self-titled debut in 2004 and returned over a decade later with El Ave Madrina in 2017, an eight-track album that leans into hazy, groove-driven rock with Spanish-language lyrics.
Orate are a stoner/grunge outfit from Santiago, Chile who have been active since 2004, drawing on grunge, indie rock, and stoner influences in their songwriting. They released a self-titled debut in 2004 and returned over a decade later with El Ave Madrina in 2017, an eight-track album that leans into hazy, groove-driven rock with Spanish-language lyrics.
Finnish black/sludge metal/hardcore project formed in 2023, fusing three hostile genres into a single abrasive compound. Their deconstructive approach strips each genre to its most aggressive elements before reassembling them.
Denver's Orm dwell in the slow, crushing overlap of sludge, drone, and doom metal, crafting music that moves like magma — deliberate, heavy, and indifferent to urgency. The Mile High altitude seems to have had no effect on their desire to go as low and slow as possible.
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