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Vous Autres formed in Nantes, France in 2017 as a duo operating under the initials ₣ and β, combining the rawness of black metal with the heaviness of sludge in a style that is both abstract and emotionally suffocating. Their debut EP Trente Pièces d'Argent and subsequent full-length Champ du Sang (2019) attracted significant attention in the European underground and earned them a deal with Season of Mist's Underground Activists imprint. Their third album Sel de Pierre further refined their sound while maintaining the oppressive atmosphere that defines their catalogue.
Voyager formed in 2004 and have spent over two decades building a dense, slow-moving sound rooted in doom and atmospheric sludge metal with post-rock reach. Their compositions are patient and expansive, allowing weight and atmosphere to accumulate gradually rather than arriving through brute force alone. The blend of sludge heaviness and post-rock's textural sensitivity gives their work an emotional scale that the straightforwardly heavy cannot always achieve.
Vukojarac is a sludge/stoner metal band from Sinj, Croatia, formed in 2020. They deliver heavy, low-tuned sludge and stoner metal from the Dalmatian hinterland.
Morgantown, West Virginia's Vulgar Royalty formed in 2021 with a sound that collapses grindcore, hardcore, and sludge metal into one misanthropic heap. The combination gives their music a relentless forward momentum shot through with the kind of slow, grinding dread that sludge does best.
Denver's Vulgarian have been fusing crust punk's antagonism with the slow-burning weight of sludge metal since 2020. The collision suits the mile-high city well — equal parts driving rage and heavy, oxygen-thin atmosphere.
Vulva Intestines is a death/sludge metal/grindcore band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, active since 2002. They blend the repulsive extremes of grindcore with sludge and death metal's heaviness.
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