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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Saint Petersburg's Stanubis merge sludge, drone, and doom metal from the cultural capital since 2016. Their Anubis-referencing name channels the Egyptian jackal-god of embalming into compositions of multi-layered, funereal weight.
New Haven, Connecticut doom/sludge/black metal band formed in 2024, Starvation combines the dragging heaviness of sludge, the bleakness of black metal, and the oppressive weight of doom into a suffocating sonic whole.
Fayetteville, Arkansas sludge/doom metal band formed in 2024, Stash Hag deal in slow, corrosive heaviness rooted in the Southern sludge tradition with a crushing low-end focus.
Fort Wayne, Indiana sludge and doom metal band formed in 2020, delivering slow-churning, down-tuned riffs with the corrosive weight characteristic of the American Midwest sludge scene.
San Antonio sludge metal band formed in 2022, built around suffocating low-end and caustic noise in the tradition of Texas heavy underground acts with an uncompromising approach to filth-drenched heaviness.
Roermond's Stewie Brick deal in sludge metal from the Limburg retail capital since 2019. Their irreverent name and southern Dutch origins bring offbeat humor to compositions of genuine, ear-crushing heaviness.
Colorado Springs outfit founded in 2015 that fuses psychedelic doom and sludge metal into slow, haze-drenched soundscapes rooted in the high-altitude heaviness of the Rocky Mountain region.
Los Angeles stoner and sludge metal act formed in 2017, stacking fuzzed-out riffs and swamp-heavy grooves against the backdrop of the Southern California heavy underground.
Geneva, Illinois drone, doom, and sludge metal band formed in 2021, layering oppressive sonic weight across slow, cavernous compositions in the tradition of Midwestern heavy experimentalism.
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