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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Doom/sludge metal act from Warsaw, formed in 2017. Their music lurches forward with deliberate, oppressive weight, burying the listener beneath layers of corroded guitar tone.
Spanish stoner/sludge metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2011. They craft heavy, western-tinged stoner-sludge from the Catalan capital.
Spanish doom/death/sludge metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2017. They merge three crushing subgenres into a massive, suffocating wall of sound.
Sludge/post-metal band from Stoke-on-Trent, formed in 2014, described as ferocious but tempered with quiet introspection. Their album D U S T features three extended compositions spanning up to nineteen minutes, blending sludge metal weight with post-rock dynamics.
Manchester blackened sludge/doom band formed in 2023, delivering wave after wave of crushing sludge. Their self-titled debut features five tracks across thirty-seven minutes, culminating in the eleven-minute closer Black Sky, and has drawn over fifty supporters on Bandcamp.
Doom/sludge metal act from Treviso, formed in 2003. Their music lurches forward with deliberate, oppressive weight, burying the listener beneath layers of corroded guitar tone.
Sludge metal and hardcore band from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2025. A fresh addition to Sofia's heavy music scene, merging sludge's abrasive weight with hardcore's intensity.
German sludge/doom metal band from Dresden, formed in 2019. They craft heavy, toxic sludge-doom from the Saxon capital, befitting their lead-heavy namesake.
Sheffield duo crafting suffocating sludge and doom, whose sophomore album The Dead Replenish The Earth was recorded in freezing winter conditions and released through Dry Cough Records and Heavenly Vault in 2024. Their sound weaves moments of dark beauty into crushing walls of distortion and despair.
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