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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Kansas City sludge metal project from the Missouri underground.
Apneica delivers sludge and post-metal from Sorso near Sassari in northern Sardinia since 2011. Their name, derived from apnea — the cessation of breathing — captures the suffocating weight of their island-born heaviness.
Knoxville sludge metal project channeling East Tennessee mountain isolation into crushing heaviness.
Grants Pass, Oregon death metal project whose 2019 self-titled EP delivers extremity from southern Oregon's Rogue Valley. Named after wingless insects, their music stays grounded in earthbound heaviness.
Apöstät brings sludge metal from the Champagne capital of Troyes since 2015, their umlauted apostasy name adding a Germanic edge to their rejection of musical orthodoxy. Their crushing sound channels the weight of eastern France's medieval architecture.
Arachnotaur channels doom, drone, and sludge metal from the UK underground since 2022, their spider-bull hybrid name evoking a monstrous heaviness. The project delivers some of the most crushingly slow and heavy music in the British underground.
Chicago sludge metal project active since 2010. Three releases including the simply titled I and the later Purgative deliver thick, punishing heaviness that channels the Midwest's industrial landscape into music built for endurance.
Nashville sludge unit that layers thick, tar-coated riffs with Southern grit, channeling the swamp-heavy murk of Tennessee's underground into punishing, slow-burn heaviness.
Archelon merges progressive metal with sludge from Sheffield since 2015, named after the largest sea turtle that ever lived. Over a decade of Steel City heaviness speaks to the prehistoric scale of their compositions.
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