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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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AMENRA "Vanuytsel 7"" (2021)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Spanish sludge/doom metal band from Bilbao, formed in 2012. They craft crushing sludge-doom from the Basque industrial heartland.
Ivano-Frankivsk-based sludge metal act active since 2017, delivering corrosive, feedback-drenched heaviness that grinds forward with hostile intent. Their sound channels the genre's essential aggression through punishingly distorted guitar tones and abrasive vocals.
Warsaw-based stoner/sludge metal outfit active since 2017, laying down thick, fuzz-caked riffs that move at a lumbering, hypnotic pace. Their sound occupies the hazy intersection where stoner metal's psychedelic warmth meets sludge's abrasive hostility.
A sludge/doom metal outfit from New Orleans, Louisiana formed in 2017, drawing on the city's rich tradition of slow, crushing heavy music.
An Alabama heavy/doom/sludge metal outfit from the small town of Warrior, Barbarian Funeral surfaced in 2024 with a compilation track on Weedian's regional showcase Trip to Mississippi & Alabama.
Manchester stoner/sludge metal band formed in 2018, self-described northern stoner doom heavyweights. Their growing catalog including Solitude and Savagery and Mean Sugar delivers massive, slow-burning heaviness with the grit expected from the north of England.
Detroit's Barbed Casket is an all-instrumental sludge metal project, letting the weight and texture of the music speak without vocals since forming in 2021.
Santa Cruz sludge metal outfit Barf leans into the genre's grimy, low-tuned heaviness, adding a dose of West Coast irreverence through a name that doubles as a statement of intent.
Brattleboro, Vermont's Barishi blended progressive and sludge metal with nature-themed imagery before their split, earning recognition through appearances on Season of Mist's 2016 sampler and leaving members to continue in the project Ordh.
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