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Sludge metal band from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, active since 2015. They deliver the low-end heaviness and abrasive textures that define the sludge metal sound.
Sludge metal outfit from Brighton, formed in 2016. Their music moves with the grinding inevitability of industrial machinery, all corroded tones and barely controlled fury.
Glasgow-based stoner/sludge metal outfit active since 2018, 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.
Five-piece doom/sludge band from Vienna, Austria, formed in 2024, released on Capeet Records. Their self-titled debut EP, recorded live and pressed on limited red transparent cassette, delivers epic slow-burn heaviness spanning tracks up to twelve minutes long.
Grinding Sludge Metal out of Texas.
Sludge metal outfit from Nottingham, formed in 2010. Their music moves with the grinding inevitability of industrial machinery, all corroded tones and barely controlled fury.
Birmingham-based stoner/sludge metal outfit active since 2013, 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.
Buried Inside formed in Ottawa, Ontario in 1997, drawing on the precedents set by Neurosis and Isis to develop a dense, slow-burning sound that merged post-metal atmospherics with hardcore aggression. The band released four studio albums, including Chronoclast (2005) and Spoils of Failure (2009), both on Relapse Records, with the former written as a continuous 40-minute composition. They played their final show in Ottawa in November 2010.
Multi-faceted extreme act from Lausanne, Switzerland, evolving from sludge/southern metal to death/sludge metal with hardcore since 2013. Their stylistic evolution reflects a restless creative spirit.
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