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AMENRA "Vanuytsel 7"" (2021)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Hull sludge/stoner metal band formed in 2010, purveyors of dirt-ridden Humber sludge fronted by vocalist Phil Wilkinson. Five albums deep from Nothing to Lose through King of a Dead World, they pair razor-sharp guttural vocals with infectious, groove-laden riffs and commentary on environmental collapse.
Spanish stoner/sludge metal band from Formentera del Segura in Alicante province. They deliver heavy, fuzzed-out stoner-sludge from the Mediterranean coast.
French stoner/sludge metal band from Normandy, formed in 2011. They deliver bear-fighting stoner-sludge from the Norman countryside.
Welsh sludge/post-metal project founded in 2022 by multi-instrumentalist Robert Horsfall. Their 2023 debut Beddgelert is a single forty-four-minute track serving as a soundtrack to a thirteenth-century Welsh folk tale about the loyal dog Gelert, blending monolithic heaviness with hallucinatory calm, sung partly in Welsh.
Bristol sludge metal four-piece formed in 2015, signed to APF Records, creating what they call a sludge-meets-extreme-metal carnival. Their releases including Compelled to Repeat and the Chainscraper EP blend post-metal, psychedelia, grunge, stoner rock, and death metal into an unpredictable, genre-defying heaviness.
German doom/sludge metal band from Mannheim, formed in 2019, rising from the ashes of Black Shape of Nexus. Their unconventional two-bass, one-guitar, drums lineup creates what they call 'the total absence of tonal sanity' -- crushing, psychedelic doom-sludge of massive proportions.
Slovenian doom/sludge outfit active since 2013, dragging their compositions through a swamp of distortion, feedback, and crushing tempos. Their sound sits at the punishing intersection where doom metal's patience meets sludge's confrontational aggression.
Finnish doom/sludge metal band from Tampere, formed in 2025. They craft blessed doom-sludge from Finland's third-largest city.
Thessaloniki-based sludge/post-metal outfit active since 2018, building dynamic compositions that oscillate between abrasive sludge riffing and atmospheric expanses. Their music trades in tension and release, alternating quiet passages with crushing walls of distortion.
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