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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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Progressive death/black/sludge metal band from Pomerania, Poland, formed in 2024. Their ambitious four-genre approach pushes extreme metal into progressive territory from the Baltic coast.
Rebuig is a sludge/doom metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2015. Named after the Catalan word for 'rejection,' the band delivers crushing sludge and doom from the Catalan capital.
Red Apollo is an atmospheric sludge and post-metal band from Dortmund, Germany, active since 2011 and released through Moment of Collapse Records. Their catalog spanning from 2012's Marche Funèbre through 2018's The Laurels of Serenity delivers dense layers of sludge, post-hardcore, and atmospheric black metal influences.
Thunderous Stoner / Sludge Metal from Plainview.
Red Mourning is a stoner/sludge metal band from Paris, France, active since 2008. Over a decade of sludge-drenched heaviness from the French capital establishes them in the Parisian doom underground.
Long Beach, California's Red River Massacre trade in sludge-soaked stoner metal that bakes in Southern California's sun-bleached intensity and the corrosive weight of the city's underground. Since 2018, they've pursued a slow, oppressive heaviness that owes as much to Southern sludge tradition as it does to desert-rock psychedelia.
Red Sativa is a sludge/doom metal band from Marseille on the Mediterranean coast of France, formed in 2018. The band delivers crushing sludge and doom from the port city of Provence.
Sludge/stoner metal band from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2016. Their swamp-themed name accompanies corrosive, heavy riff worship from the Hungarian capital.
Sludge/post-metal band from the Porto/São João da Madeira area, Portugal, active since 2015. Their approach blends sludge metal's crushing heaviness with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
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