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AMENRA "Vanuytsel 7"" (2021)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Sough is a Chicago sludge and post-metal band formed in 2016, building dense, heavy soundscapes that reflect the grit of the city's heavy music scene while pushing toward more expansive, atmospheric territory.
Soul Dregs is a New Jersey sludge and stoner metal band formed in 2025, dealing in the slow, heavy, fuzz-drenched sounds that draw from both doom traditions and stoner rock.
Soul Terror is a Maryland band formed in 2013 that melds death metal, doom, and sludge into a slow-grinding, punishing sound. Their genre crossover places crushing heaviness at the center, drawing from both the morbidity of death metal and the oppressive weight of sludge and doom.
Groningen's Soul Theft merge doom, sludge, and stoner metal from the northern Dutch capital since 2017. Their spirit-larceny name channels stolen essences into compositions of multi-layered, all-consuming heaviness.
Soulpreacher is a sludge and doom metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina, active since 2000. One of the longer-running acts in the Southeast's heavy underground, they deliver lumbering, blues-infused heaviness characteristic of Southern sludge.
Sourvein is a veteran sludge/doom metal band from Wilmington, North Carolina, whose catalog of oppressive, swamp-soaked heaviness has made them a long-standing fixture of the Southern sludge underground since the early 2000s.
South Gate is a sludge metal band from Flat Rock, Michigan, formed in 2017, delivering slow-grinding, feedback-heavy heaviness rooted in the thick, abrasive textures at the core of the sludge metal tradition.
Southern Decay is a sludge metal band from San Antonio, Texas, formed in 2023, channeling the slow corrosive weight of Southern sludge into the fertile Texas heavy music scene.
Sowbelly is a sludge/doom metal band from Durand, Michigan, active since 2009. They deal in slow, heavy riffs and oppressive atmosphere rooted firmly in the American sludge tradition.
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