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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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St. Louis's Towering Filth, active since 2011, fuse the ugliness of sludge metal with black metal's hostility and hardcore's stripped-down fury, arriving at a sound that is deliberately abrasive, confrontational, and indifferent to genre boundaries.
Portland, Oregon's Towers deal in the lumbering, sun-scorched territory where sludge metal meets stoner rock, built on heavy amplifier worship, slow groove, and the kind of earth-moving low end that defines the Pacific Northwest's heavier underground.
Out of the small coastal enclave of Baywood-Los Osos, California, Toxic Wizard collapse genre walls with reckless abandon, fusing sludge heaviness, grindcore violence, power metal theatrics, and experimental noise into a deliberately unclassifiable whole since 2016.
Trachea is a sludge/doom metal band from Jõhvi, Estonia, formed in 2014. They deliver crushing sludge and doom from the northeastern Estonian industrial region.
Portland's Tragedy are one of the more distinctive voices in heavy music, weaving crust punk's anarchic urgency together with doom and sludge metal's oppressive weight to create something that feels both furious and crushing.
Columbus, Ohio's Traitors Return to Earth have been sinking deep into stoner-sludge-doom's tar pit heaviness since 2011, layering fuzz and feedback over glacial tempos and a persistent sense of weighted despair.
Transcendent Barrier is a doom/sludge/stoner metal band from Hamminkeln, Germany, formed in 2019. They deliver crushing, multi-layered doom with sludge and stoner metal influences.
Transcomar is a sludge/post-metal band from Bochum, Germany, formed in 2023. They blend sludge metal's abrasive weight with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
Frederick, Maryland's Trap Ratt are a very young sludge/post-metal act formed in 2024, dragging heavy atmospheric texture through slow, distorted riffing and building the kind of oppressive post-metal architecture that rewards patient listening.
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