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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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Sludge and death metal band from Portsmouth, England formed in 2020. Wolf Plays Dead fuses the crushing weight of sludge with death metal's brutality from the south coast naval city.
Sludge metal band from Stavanger, Norway formed in 2021. Wolfjaw delivers crushing sludge from Norway's oil capital on the southwestern coast.
Sludge, doom metal, and experimental band from Hesse, Germany formed in 2022. Wolfsschrotter pushes beyond conventional sludge and doom boundaries with experimental textures and unconventional song structures.
Five-piece sludge metal and hardcore band from Siegen, Germany formed in 2011, describing their sound as "a bastard of 90s sludge metal and ruthless hardcore fused into sonic waves of blackness." Their 2016 album Black Earth Tongue was recorded at Parabol Audio and praised for its progressively structured, hard-hitting metallic sludge.
Minneapolis's Wolvhammer have been a cornerstone of American blackened sludge since 2011, fusing the nihilistic ugliness of black metal with the churning, tar-thick weight of sludge in ways that feel genuinely confrontational rather than merely stylistically clever. Their music is built on tension — the cold malice of the black metal tradition grinding against the lumbering hatred of sludge — and it never quite resolves into comfort. They're one of the names any serious fan of underground extreme metal should know.
Stoner and sludge metal band from Menton, France formed in 2019. Wormsand channels the heavy grooves of stoner and sludge metal from the French-Italian border on the Côte d'Azur.
Boston's Wormwood — not to be confused with their Illinois namesake — emerged in 2015 with a sound rooted in sludge and doom metal, drawing on the Northeast's long tradition of heavy, miserable riffing. Their music carries the grim weight that characterizes the best of the city's underground heavy scene.
Minneapolis's Worn Mantle formed in 2022, grafting the corrosive texture of sludge metal onto a blackened death metal framework — a combination that suits the Twin Cities underground's affinity for heavy music that is both abrasive and emotionally oppressive. The band brings a multi-genre brutality to a city with a strong tradition of extreme metal.
Colorado Springs' Worry have been trading in the sludge-hardcore crossover since 2017, building a sound that is slow enough to crush and aggressive enough to pummel. Their music draws on the bleak altitude of the Colorado Front Range, pairing sludge metal's deliberate heaviness with hardcore's blunt-force urgency.
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