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Doom, sludge, and post-metal band from Karlsruhe, Germany active from 2014 to 2021, leaving behind four full-length albums and two EPs. Their catalog spans from the 2014 EP Üntrve Bläck Metäl through 2021's Bäd Vibez Önly, with umlaut-laden titles reflecting their irreverent approach to heavy music.
Sludge and doom metal band from Lyon, France active since 2017. Witchgrove channels the weight of sludge and doom through occult-tinged atmospheres from France's gastronomic capital.
Nashville, Tennessee's Withdrawn formed in 2021 in the bleak overlap between doom, sludge, and death metal — a combination that turns the misery dial up considerably. Nashville is better known for country and Americana, which makes the emergence of a genuinely crushing doom/death act there all the more striking. Their sound is heavy in the way that feels earned rather than performed.
Portland's Wizard Cage arrived in 2023 with a sound rooted in the Pacific Northwest's fertile sludge and stoner metal underground, piling doom's funeral-pace heaviness onto a bed of fuzzed-out, psychedelic riff work. As one of the newer acts in Portland's sprawling heavy music scene, they're already embracing the slow, crushing aesthetic that the city has elevated into an art form. Their name captures the lysergic, occult-tinged darkness that runs through their music.
New Orleans's Wizard Dick bring the city's deep sludge metal lineage to bear in a band whose name is provocative by design — and whose music backs it up with genuine sonic weight. Formed in 2020, they inhabit the swampy, feedback-soaked end of the sludge spectrum that New Orleans has perfected since the days of Crowbar and Eyehategod. Their hometown's oppressive heat and heavy cultural history seep into every slow, grinding riff.
Brand new as of 2024, Kendallville, Indiana's Wizards of the Damned are already staking out uncompromising territory with a sound that splices sludge metal, death metal, and hardcore into something confrontational and ugly in the best possible way. Coming from a small Midwestern town, they carry that outsider energy into their music — no industry calculus, just raw extremity. Their debut presence signals an act determined to make an impression immediately.
Blackened sludge metal band from Nendaz, Switzerland that emerged in 2019 from Visinand, a town historically affected by plague. Their releases No Light has No Shadow and Experimental Brew deliver thick walls of distortion and cavernous vocals in a heavy, turbulent approach to sludge.
Sludge and doom metal band from Ylivieska, Finland emerging in 2025. Wizards Sleeves delivers crushing sludge and doom from the Ostrobothnian plains of western Finland.
Sludge and doom metal band from Padua, Italy formed in 2019. Named after the famous bear soldier of World War II, Wojtek delivers crushing sludge and doom from the ancient university city of the Veneto.
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