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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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Boise's Pink Soapy Vomit launched in 2025 with a name designed to disturb and a sound to match — a corrosive blend of death and sludge metal that sounds exactly as pleasant as it should.
Syracuse's Plague Mask has been cultivating a blackened doom sludge pestilence since 2012 — slow, harrowing, and suffused with the kind of upstate New York despair that only January in that city can produce.
Chicago's Plague of Carcosa draws its name from Robert W. Chambers' mythos and its sound from the intersection of stoner, sludge, and doom — heavy, hazy, and haunted by something that refuses to be named.
Albany's Planet Eater drag sludge and stoner weight through a metalcore framework, building slow-burning riffs into volatile, lurching explosions. Since 2016 they've carved a niche in the Northeast underground where heaviness is measured in tonnage.
Mannheim's Planks evolved from straightforward sludge metal into a more complex blackened sludge and post-metal hybrid over their years of activity since 2007. Their Kurpfalz industrial-city roots inform a sound that grew progressively darker and more ambitious with each release.
Indiana's Plenary Indulgence crawls through the intersection of funeral doom and sludge with crushing deliberateness, building suffocating walls of feedback and grief into extended dirges. Formed in 2022, the project channels the bleakest traditions of the genre — glacial tempos, cavernous tones, and the oppressive weight of something that refuses to end quickly.
A 2021 black metal project from North Rhine-Westphalia, Plutonyan channels celestial darkness through compositions that are as cold and distant as their Pluto-referencing name implies. Their cosmic perspective sets them apart from the genre's more earthbound practitioners.
Sludge, heavy, and death metal band from Riga, Latvia, formed in 2020, whose name means 'many-headed.' They deliver multi-faceted heaviness combining sludge, heavy, and death metal from the Latvian capital.
Post-rock and hardcore turned atmospheric sludge and post-metal band from Ravenna, Italy, formed in 2014, named after the Roman goddess of the past. Their evolution from post-hardcore to atmospheric sludge reflects a deepening sonic weight.
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