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RodtGod is a sludge/doom metal band from Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, formed in 2020. The band delivers crushing low-end heaviness from the Swabian industrial metropolis.
Doom/sludge metal/experimental/noise band from Poznań, Poland, active since 2014. Their approach pushes heavy music into experimental and noise territory from the Greater Poland capital.
Stoner/sludge metal band from Edinburgh, Scotland, active since 2012. Their long-running project delivers fuzzy, heavy riff worship from the Scottish capital.
Portland's Rolling Through the Universe have been navigating the slow-burning overlap of doom, sludge, and post-metal since 2012. Their songs tend toward long-form structures where crushing low-end weight gradually gives way to atmospheric drift, rewarding listeners willing to sink into the undertow.
Romasa emerged from New Orleans in 2019 dragging the swamp-thick sludge tradition into contact with the rawer, faster urgency of crust punk. The city's legacy of slow-motion heaviness is present in every downtuned chord, but the crust influence keeps things mean and restless rather than comfortably ponderous.
Sludge/post-metal band from Oslo, Norway, active since 2014. Their approach blends sludge metal's crushing heaviness with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness from the Norwegian capital.
Huntington, West Virginia's Rookscare have been bending psychedelic sludge metal into strange shapes since 2016. The band laces their crushing, feedback-heavy foundation with hallucinatory textures that make the heaviness feel disorienting rather than just punishing — heavy music that puts you somewhere else.
Sludge/stoner metal band from Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland, active since 2012. Their nature-themed name accompanies heavy, riff-driven stoner sludge from the Greater Poland region.
Based out of McCall, Idaho — a small mountain town with no particular metal history — Rope Straightener formed in 2022 playing sludge metal that sounds like it belongs to the surrounding terrain. The isolation of the setting seems to have worked its way into the music: heavy, unhurried, and unconcerned with an audience.
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