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Richmond, Virginia's Pyramid Mass fuses blackened sludge with progressive ambition, layering dissonant riffing and scorched-earth atmosphere over complex song structures that reward patient listening from a Richmond scene long comfortable with sonic extremity.
Sludge and doom metal band from Malmo, Sweden, active since 2009, delivering over sixteen years of monolithic sludge and doom from the southernmost Swedish city. They are veterans of the Scandinavian sludge scene.
Bayonne, New Jersey's Pyre Fyre marries sludge metal's tar-thick heaviness to stoner metal's hazy, fuzz-soaked grooves, forming a swamp of heavy riffs and slow-burning momentum that leans hard into the oppressive and the hypnotic since their 2021 formation.
Houston sludge/post-metal blending doom with 90s slowcore and noise rock.
Pittsburgh's Pyrithe work in the corrosive overlap of experimental sludge, post-metal, and noise rock, building structures that are architecturally dense and abrasive, reflecting the industrial weight of their city while pushing well past genre comfort zones since 2018.
Toledo, Ohio's Pythian stake their claim in the slow and suffocating territory where sludge, doom, and post-metal converge, crafting ponderous, emotionally weighted compositions that reflect the decay and resilience of their Great Lakes rust-belt surroundings since 2019.
Sludge metal and crust punk band from Alcorcon in the Madrid metropolitan area of Spain, formed in 2016. They released a self-titled four-track demo in June 2016 featuring compositions identified by Roman numerals, blending the crushing weight of doom and sludge with the raw fury of crust. Their sound sits at the abrasive intersection of metal and punk.
Sludge/doom metal band from Leipzig, Germany, active since 2015 and known for their oppressively heavy sound. They have released at least two records including a self-titled album and "VERSUS," both channeling the weight and grit that define the sludge and doom crossover.
R. Josef is a solo atmospheric sludge and post-black metal project from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2019, with all music written and performed by a single musician. Their 2019 Panoptic EP was released on cassette via Bharal Tapes in a limited run of 66 handmade silkscreened copies, delivering four tracks of dense sludgy post-metal.
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