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Formed in Savannah, Georgia in 2003, Baroness became one of the defining acts of the progressive sludge metal movement, known for frontman John Baizley's iconic visual artwork and the band's resilience following a serious tour bus crash in 2012.
Chicago's Barren Heir have been cultivating a sound in the sludge and doom metal tradition since 2015, contributing to the city's robust underground heavy music community with a brooding, riff-driven approach.
A Dallas sludge/thrash metal act, Barren Mind bring a crushed, heavy sound to Texas's fertile extreme metal landscape by combining the caustic weight of sludge with thrash aggression.
French sludge/black metal band from Sainte-Jalle in Drôme, formed in 2015. They merge sludge metal's toxic weight with black metal's intensity from the Provençal countryside.
Portland's Bastard Feast is a ferocious collision of sludge, death metal, grindcore, and crust, channeling social unrest and anarchic politics; they released material on Season of Mist Underground Activists.
Lancashire sludge metal band active since 2008, self-described as the soundtrack to drowning in a swamp. Their catalog including albums Tarnation, Remains, and Ichor! Ichor! has earned them stages alongside Orange Goblin, Baroness, Kylesa, and Harvey Milk.
Heavy metal, sludge, and grunge-inflected rock band from Southend-on-Sea in Essex, active since 2015. They bring a gritty, genre-crossing heaviness that draws on hard rock, sludge metal, and the murkier side of grunge.
A New York sludge/doom outfit with industrial undercurrents active from 2008 to around 2013, releasing material through Seventh Rule Recordings and appearing on several early-2010s metal compilations.
German sludge metal and crust punk band from Bamberg, formed in 2019. They merge sludge metal's crushing low-end with crust punk's raw, d-beat-fueled fury.
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