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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Sleep of Thoth channel sludge, stoner, and doom metal from the Balearic Islands, building crushing compositions inspired by the Egyptian god of knowledge and the moon. Formed in 2021, they bring ancient wisdom and island-bred heaviness to the Mediterranean.
San Francisco sludge/doom/post-metal trio formed in 2018, layering colossal low-end riffs beneath post-metal's expansive structural ambitions and sludge's punishing dissonance. Sleepbomb draw naturally from the Bay Area's rich tradition of heavy, slow, and deliberately oppressive music.
Indianapolis sludge/doom metal band active since 2010, building heavy, slow-burning compositions rooted in the Midwest's workmanlike approach to extreme music. Sleepbringer favor atmosphere and weight over flash, grinding through extended riff cycles with methodical intensity.
Detroit's Sleepy Cheese brew a thick combination of stoner riffing, sludge-soaked heaviness, and slow-motion doom, leaning into the grimy industrial character of their Motor City home since 2014. Their sound prizes weight and atmosphere over speed, settling into a low, comfortable groove.
Jonesboro, Arkansas' Sleuthfoot drag sludge metal through distinctly Southern mud, combining the genre's oppressive weight with the regional grit of Southern metal since 2017. Their sound taps into the same swampy heaviness that has made the American South a fertile ground for slow, punishing music.
Providence's Sliimo emerged in 2023 as a young entry into Rhode Island's heavy underground, working the slow, oppressive intersection of sludge, stoner, and doom metal. Their sound prioritizes crushing low-end and a crawling pace, fitting naturally into the New England scene's appetite for uglier, heavier sounds.
Albuquerque's Slippage anchor themselves in sludge metal's heaviest and most abrasive corner, emerging in 2020 in a city that has quietly developed a reputation for supporting intense, underground-oriented heavy music. Their sound captures the suffocating weight and feedback-laden ugliness central to the genre.
Portland's Slither fuse post-hardcore's intensity with sludge metal's grinding heaviness, active since 2020 in a city whose underground has long embraced the abrasive edges where punk and metal blur. Their dual-influence approach keeps their sound aggressive and unpredictable in equal measure.
Milwaukee's Slob Donovan have spent over a decade dragging drone, sludge, and doom metal into the slowest possible territory since their 2009 formation, producing music defined by cavernous low frequencies and suffocating tempo. They sit comfortably in the Wisconsin underground's tolerance for the willfully ugly and punishing.
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