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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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Spliffripper is a doom and sludge metal band from Kalispell, Montana, formed in 2021, offering slow, crushing heaviness from the remote northern Rockies, where the isolation of the landscape matches the oppressive weight of the music.
Splintr is a sludge metal band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 2025, emerging from the same Pacific Northwest underground that has long cultivated heavy, abrasive music built on low-end torment and feedback-laced riffs.
Split Lung is a stoner, sludge, and doom metal band from Fresno, California, formed in 2015, specializing in heavy, slow-burning riffs and oppressive atmosphere within the Central Valley's underground heavy music scene.
Splitting Septum is a sludge, thrash, and hardcore band from Indiana, formed in 2025, blending the downtuned abrasion of sludge metal with thrash aggression and hardcore's confrontational energy.
Providence, Rhode Island outfit Sponch traffics in abrasive sludge and doom metal, blending crushing low-end riffs with noise-inflected textures since forming in 2017.
SPRGM channel stoner and sludge metal from Helsinki, building hazy, heavy compositions with their vowel-stripped name. Active since 2016, they bring cryptic heaviness to the Finnish capital's stoner scene.
San Antonio, Texas stoner and sludge metal band Spunkous formed in 2023, fusing the hazy, heavy grooves of stoner metal with the abrasive weight of sludge within San Antonio's active underground scene.
Yorkshire's Squalords deal in the kind of doom-sludge hybrid that feels like wading through wet concrete. Since 2014, they have cultivated a sound that is unrelentingly heavy and deliberately paced.
Pacifica, California sludge metal outfit Squalus formed in 2017, delivering the slow, distortion-heavy weight of sludge metal from the Bay Area coastline with a suitably murky and oppressive sonic identity.
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