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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Minneapolis' Sloggoth have been delivering sludge metal with the Midwestern grit and tenacity of a band committed to the heavy underground since their 2015 start. Their approach leans into the genre's defining characteristics — slow, dense, and deliberately uncomfortable — in a city with a thriving extreme scene.
Memphis' Slolerner are a 2025 newcomer to a city whose deep musical roots extend into the heaviest forms of sludge metal, channeling that tradition's swamp-thick tempos and grinding low end. Their emergence adds another entry to Tennessee's quietly growing heavy underground.
Reykjavik's Slor channel doom and sludge metal with glacial patience since 2023. Their Icelandic setting, surrounded by actual glaciers and volcanic landscapes, naturally informs their crushing, elemental heaviness.
Phoenix, Arizona sludge and stoner metal band formed in 2024, channeling the desert Southwest's arid heat into lumbering, fuzz-drenched riffs and a hazy psychedelic atmosphere.
Slowenya channel sludge and doom metal from Turku, building heavy, deliberate compositions from southwestern Finland. Formed in 2021, they bring Slovenian-named slowness to the Finnish doom/sludge scene.
Slowjoint deliver sludge metal from southern Denmark, building tar-thick compositions with the deliberate, heavy pace their name implies. Active since 2012, they bring crushing slowness to the Syddanmark region.
Portland, Oregon sludge and doom metal band formed in 2020, named after the Gaelic spirit of the restless dead and channeling that mythology into bleak, slow-grinding heaviness.
Martinsburg, West Virginia sludge and groove metal band formed in 2020, combining sludge metal's abrasive mid-paced weight with the rhythmic heaviness of groove metal in the Appalachian underground.
Collinsville, Illinois sludge and doom metal band formed in 2021, delivering thick, feedback-drenched riffs and a crushing low-end sonic identity from the Metro East underground just across from St. Louis.
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