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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Rooted in Athens's underground, this sludge/doom metal project delivers grim compositions with conviction since 2017. Their work explores the genre's darkest corners through immense heaviness.
Doom/sludge metal band from Limburg, Germany, formed in 2025. Their crushing, slow-tempo compositions deliver the suffocating weight of doom and sludge from the Lahn valley.
Hexendrone is a sludge/drone/doom metal band from Krasnodar, Russia, formed in 2024. They channel crushing sludge-doom through abrasive riffs and oppressive weight.
Doom/sludge metal band from Dortmund, Germany, active since 2015. Their crushing, feedback-laden sound delivers the suffocating weight of doom and sludge from the Ruhr Valley.
Salt Lake City's Hibernaut pile sludge, stoner, and doom into a slow-moving mass that seems calibrated to induce a specific kind of narcotic heaviness. Formed in 2023, they occupy the hazy zone where riff weight and psychedelic drift become the same thing.
Neo-psychedelic doom metal from Amsterdam
Drone-laced riffs and thunderous grooves with bluesy vocals and electric violin in a maelstrom of feedback, loops, and effects.
Metalcore act from Rambouillet near Paris, active since 2013. Their energetic sound channels over a decade of experience in the Île-de-France metalcore scene.
An established black/sludge metal, hardcore voice from Ravenna, contributing to Italy's underground since 2016. Icy melodies interwoven with blast-beaten fury characterize their output.
High is a stoner/sludge/doom metal band from England, United Kingdom, active since 2006 and delivering crushing, fuzz-laden heaviness where doom's oppressive weight meets stoner metal's hazy grooves. The project channels low-end power and psychedelic atmosphere.
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