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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Sludge metal band from Glasgow, formed in 2019. They bring the weight and abrasive heaviness of the sludge tradition to the Scottish underground metal scene.
Orlando progressive and sludge metal band active from around 2013, blending slow-burning sludge weight with progressive song structures in the fertile Florida extreme metal underground.
Oakland sludge metal and crust band active from around 2013, fusing the abrasive weight of sludge with the rawer urgency of crust punk.
Sludge/stoner metal and hard rock band from Nottingham, self-described purveyors of speed doom. Their releases including Mood Poisoning and Fantasy Dealer deliver crushing low-end riffs to the East Midlands underground.
Fort Wayne, Indiana sludge and doom outfit channeling misanthropy, crime, and despair into crushingly heavy riffs, building a relentlessly bleak sonic portrait since 2017.
German blackened sludge/doom metal trio from Osnabrück, formed in 2016. Their self-described sound combines slow, devastating doom with blackened intensity, earning praise for its bleak, emotional heaviness across releases like their 2020 self-titled debut.
Atmospheric sludge, post-metal, and crust band from the Sokolov/Cheb area of Czech Republic, active since 2017. They layer atmospheric textures over a foundation of crushing sludge and crust punk.
Fort Worth sludge and doom act whose slow-motion heaviness landed somewhere between Southern doom and noise rock before the band dissolved.
Bala is a sludge metal and stoner rock duo from Galicia, Spain, formed in 2013 and consisting of guitarist/vocalist Anxela Baltar and drummer/vocalist Violeta Mosquera. Operating without a bassist, the pair construct a dense, fuzz-saturated sound rooted in heavy riffing and raw energy, with lyrics delivered in both Spanish and Galician. The band released two albums on Santiago de Compostela label Matapadre before signing with Century Media Records for Maleza in 2021.
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