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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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AMENRA "Vanuytsel 7"" (2021)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Los Angeles sludge and death metal band formed in 2024, merging the caustic weight of death metal with sludge's slow, corrosive heaviness in the city's contemporary extreme underground.
California sludge metal band formed in 1996, dealing in the slow, crushing heaviness and feedback-drenched abrasion that defines the West Coast sludge tradition.
New York sludge metal band formed in 2021, building dense, feedback-laden walls of sound rooted in the slow, oppressive heaviness central to the sludge tradition.
Sodden is a doom and sludge metal band from Omaha, Nebraska, formed in 2024, delivering slow, oppressive riffs draped in the heavy, feedback-laden texture characteristic of the American Midwest sludge underground.
Sofa King Killer is a sludge and doom metal band from Akron, Ohio, formed in 2000, blending Southern rock grooves with the suffocating heaviness of the Midwest sludge tradition across more than two decades of activity.
Soilent Green is a New Orleans-based sludge, death metal, and grindcore band with roots going back to the early 1990s, widely regarded as one of the most distinctive acts to emerge from the Crescent City's extreme music underground, fusing the region's murky sludge aesthetic with grindcore brutality and experimental dissonance.
Sola Angor is a sludge and doom metal band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed in 2022, crafting slow, heavy compositions steeped in misery and weight within a Twin Cities scene known for its commitment to underground extremity.
Sollubi is a sludge/doom metal band from Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, formed in 2008, crafting crushingly heavy music from the rural reaches of the Keystone State, blending the tar-thick riffs of sludge with doom's meditative weight.
Odesa's Somnolent have evolved from funeral doom metal to progressive sludge since 2008. Nearly two decades from the Black Sea port, their drowsiness name has channeled the liminal state between consciousness and sleep into compositions of shifting heaviness.
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