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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Ghede is a sludge metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2011, named after the voodoo spirits of death in Haitian tradition. The band has maintained over a decade of oppressive sludge from the Catalan capital.
Ghold is a doom/sludge/avant-garde metal and noise rock band from London, active since 2012. They push the boundaries of doom and sludge metal into avant-garde and noise rock territory from the British capital.
Charleston's Ghore (SC) operates in the slow, suffocating territory where sludge metal and doom overlap — crushing guitar tones, glacial tempos, and a Southern heaviness that feels like humidity turned into sound. They've been dragging listeners down since 2016.
Ghost Empire is a sludge/doom metal band from the Prato/Florence area of Tuscany, formed in 2014. They deliver crushing sludge and doom from the Tuscan heartland.
Fayetteville, Arkansas's Ghost Hollow channel the murk of the Ozarks into blackened sludge metal, piling on distorted feedback and caustic black metal spite in equal measure. Formed in 2022, they are a recent and abrasive arrival to the scene.
Ghost of Wem is a sludge metal band from the Freiburg/Karlsruhe area in southwestern Germany, formed in 2011, with a catalog of split LPs including collaborations with Golden Gorilla and Shadow of the Torturer. The band channels massive, distorted sludge riffing from the Baden-Wurttemberg region.
Portland's Gidrah traffic in the filthiest and most suffocating end of sludge and doom, building walls of corrosive tone that move with the deliberate menace of something enormous and ancient. Their sound is the Pacific Northwest rain rendered in distortion.
Portland, Maine's Gift of Tongues fuse the atmospheric density of post-sludge with the raw violence of death metal, constructing music that feels both hauntingly spacious and crushingly heavy. Their approach since 2013 rewards those willing to sit inside the weight.
Gigafauna is a progressive sludge metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, active since 2018 and crafting ambitious, dynamic sludge from this historic university city. The project pushes sludge metal into progressive territory.
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