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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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Jonkoping's Sluka have been merging death, doom, and sludge metal from the Smaland lakeside city since 2001. A quarter-century from the shores of Lake Vattern, their Swedish name meaning "to swallow" has produced one of the region's most enduring extreme acts.
Boise, Idaho band formed in 2016 playing a murky, heavy blend of sludge, stoner, and doom metal, representing one of the few heavy underground acts to emerge from the Pacific Northwest interior.
Slund merge sludge, doom, and grindcore from an undisclosed Slovenian location since 2017. Their sludge-derived truncation channels the compressed weight of corrosive metal into compositions of anonymous, genre-crossing heaviness.
Limerick's Slung from a Tree deliver doom and sludge metal with a name suggesting execution by hanging since 2018. Their morbid imagery is matched by a sound of oppressive weight and suffocating heaviness.
Karlstad's Slodder pair sludge and doom metal from the Varmland capital since 2018. Their dialectal Swedish name channels provincial character into compositions of thick, crushing heaviness from the shores of Lake Vanern.
Folk/progressive/sludge metal band from Asenovgrad in the Plovdiv region, active since 2006, blending three disparate genres into an unconventional hybrid. Their fusion of Bulgarian folk traditions with progressive structures and sludge metal heaviness creates a distinctly Balkan sonic identity.
Smog have been churning out sludge and doom metal from Nuremberg since 1992, making them one of the longest-running acts in the Franconian heavy music underground. Their three-decade tenure and pollution-themed name reflect a sustained commitment to dense, suffocating heaviness.
Smoke Covenant is a sludge metal band from Columbus, Ohio, formed in 2016, grinding out slow, feedback-laden riffs and abrasive vocals in the crusty tradition of American sludge metal.
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