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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Atmospheric sludge metal collective from Knokke-Heist featuring the unusual lineup of two guitars and two bass players, creating walls of low-end heaviness since 2008. Their albums "Psychedelic Bugtown" (2008) and "Chasing Swans" (2010) explore themes of political activism and personal liberation through dynamic, genre-bending compositions.
Turin's Sepsi deal in doom and sludge metal since 2025. Their medical-sounding name, suggesting sepsis, implies a music that spreads through the body like a slow, systemic infection of heaviness.
Septic Apes deliver stoner and sludge metal from Jyvaskyla, building hazy, primate-themed compositions from the central Finnish Lakeland. Active since 2012, they bring infected simian grooves to the Keski-Suomi stoner scene.
Out of Layton, Utah since 2008, Septic Baptism have spent nearly two decades building suffocating walls of sludge and doom from the high desert. Their music moves at a glacial, punishing pace, drawing equally from the corrosive weight of sludge and the mournful slow-burn of traditional doom. They are one of Utah's most enduring heavy underground acts.
Septiembre Negro ("Black September") channel doom and sludge metal from Fuenlabrada near Madrid, building crushing compositions with politically charged overtones. Formed in 2023, they bring heavy, deliberate darkness to the Madrid metropolitan area.
Minneapolis sludge metal outfit Serac have been at work since 2015, channeling the cold, bleak energy of the upper Midwest into slow, crushing riff structures. Their music bears the weight of extended instrumental passages and a commitment to atmosphere that sets them apart within the dense Minneapolis heavy music scene. Named after the unstable ice formations that precede glacier collapse, their sound evokes that same slow-building, inevitable devastation.
Serpent Eater combine sludge, black, and death metal with crust punk from Cologne, creating a hydra-headed beast of extreme aggression. Active since 2012, they're one of the Rhineland's most ferocious crossover acts, refusing to be limited by genre boundaries.
Stockholm's Serpent Omega pair sludge and doom metal from the Swedish capital since 2013. Their name combining the serpent with the final Greek letter channels apocalyptic reptilian menace into over a decade of crushing compositions.
Rooted in Toulon's sun-baked Mediterranean coast, Serpent View has been churning out thick, resinous stoner/sludge/doom metal since 2014. Their sound contrasts the region's seaside warmth with crushing, low-tuned heaviness and crawling tempos.
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