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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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Dubuque, Iowa duo formed in 2016 playing a crushing blend of sludge and stoner metal, bringing a raw Midwestern heaviness to the fuzz-and-feedback end of the genre.
Madison, Wisconsin band formed in 2017 specializing in sludge-infused doom metal, combining the suffocating weight of traditional doom with the abrasive grit of sludge.
Jackson, Tennessee band formed in 2013 wielding an exceptionally heavy hybrid of sludge, death, and doom metal, fusing death metal aggression with slow, grinding doom tempos and caustic sludge textures.
Starkville, Mississippi band formed in 2024 playing sludge and stoner metal, a newly emerged voice in the South's expanding heavy underground.
Akron, Ohio band formed in 2012 playing doom-laden sludge metal rooted in the tradition of the Rust Belt's heavy underground, characterized by slow crushing riffs and bleak atmospherics.
Grand Rapids, Michigan band formed in 2021 forging a volatile mix of black metal, death metal, and sludge, combining extremity and abrasion across a broad spectrum of underground styles.
Slugphlegm deliver doom and sludge metal from Tampere, combining slug-like pacing with phlegmatic thickness. Formed in 2024, they bring mucous-weighted heaviness to the Pirkanmaa doom scene.
New Orleans sludge metal band formed in 2012, operating squarely within the city's storied tradition of swampy, slow-burning heaviness pioneered by acts like Eyehategod and Crowbar.
Frederick, Maryland sludge metal band formed in 2015, channeling the grinding, abrasive end of the genre with a raw delivery shaped by the Mid-Atlantic DIY underground.
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