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Rites emerged in 2016 wielding a raw, venomous blend of black and thrash metal that leans hard into aggression over atmosphere. Their sound channels the reckless fury of early Sodom and Bathory — stripped down, fast, and deliberately unpolished. The band's Bandcamp presence under 'thedurites' hints at a sardonic self-awareness that makes their corrosive output all the more compelling.
Sludge/doom metal band from Portugal, formed in 2020. Their Dutch-styled name, meaning 'rituals,' accompanies crushing heaviness.
Rmut is a four-piece sludge band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2021 and featuring Jurka on vocals, Krystof on guitar and bass, Fakir on guitar, and Tudo on drums. Their releases including the self-titled debut and 3 6 5 deliver straightforward Prague sludge with no pretense.
Stoner/sludge metal band from Bucharest, Romania, active since 2013. Their road-kill-themed name accompanies over a decade of heavy, fuzz-drenched stoner sludge from the Romanian capital.
Active since 2010, Seattle's Roareth have spent over a decade refining a sound that merges the lumbering crush of doom metal with sludge's distorted, mud-caked abrasiveness — a combination that feels entirely at home in the gray Pacific Northwest. Their songs move slowly and deliberately, building pressure until the weight becomes overwhelming.
Sludge/doom metal band from Italy, active since 2013. Their approach delivers crushing heaviness at the intersection of sludge and doom.
Burlington, Vermont's Rocketsled formed in 2020 around the natural tension between groove metal's locked-in rhythmic heaviness and sludge metal's abrasive, feedback-soaked drag. The result is music that is simultaneously hard to stop nodding to and uncomfortably heavy — a Vermont band that sounds more swamp than snowpack.
Roddone is an experimental sludge band from Minsk, Belarus, blending industrial metal, dark ambient, post-metal, and hardcore elements since 2013. Their 2020 album Magnitude is a self-recorded and self-produced affair featuring members Anton Berezovskiy on guitar, Nick Baryskevich on bass and lyrics, and Anton Yeroma on ambient effects.
Rodha is a stoner/sludge metal band with hardcore influences from Hamburg, Germany, active since 2012. Their releases Welter Through The Ashes and RAW deliver heavy, corroded riffs from the Hamburg underground.
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