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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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British sludge metal/metalcore band from Crawley, active since 2003 and representing over two decades of abrasive heaviness. Their long-running career marks them as veterans of the UK sludge and metalcore underground.
Finnish sludge/doom metal and hardcore band from Karjaa, formed in 2025 and merging abrasive sludge with hardcore's confrontational energy. Their name, meaning 'parasite' in Finnish, signals the invasive heaviness of their sound.
Bend, Oregon's Londor push sludge metal into experimental terrain, wrapping dissonance and punishing weight in unpredictable structural choices since forming in 2024.
Finnish sludge metal band active since 2015, channeling toxic, abrasive heaviness. Their name, meaning 'hip defect' in Finnish, brings dark humor to their punishing sludge metal approach.
Lord Dying formed in Portland, Oregon in 2010 and quickly established themselves in the sludge and doom metal underground, signing to Relapse Records for their debut Summon the Faithless (2013). Subsequent albums Poisoned Altars (2015) and Mysterium Tremendum (2019) expanded their palette to include progressive and psychedelic elements, with Kerrang! describing the latter as a prog-metal masterpiece. Their 2023 album Clandestine Transcendence further developed their increasingly ambitious approach, cementing their place among the Pacific Northwest's most creatively restless heavy bands.
French sludge/doom metal band from Paris, delivering crushing, toxic heaviness since 2014. Named after the road warrior villain, their sound channels apocalyptic menace through suffocating sludge and doom.
Oklahoma City's Los Hijos del Diablo have spent nearly two decades channeling the Devil's blues into smothering sludge and doom metal built for long, punishing nights.
Fort Worth sludge trio that went on a long hiatus then reunited. Features a guest vocal from Craig Welsh of legendary Texas hardcore act Brutal Juice.
German sludge/death metal act from Brannenburg, formed in 2024 and merging sludge metal's toxic heaviness with death metal's brutal precision. Their sound occupies the punishing intersection of both extreme genres.
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