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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sinner (Unlucky 13th Anniversary Deluxe Edition / Bonus Commentary / Disc Two) (2015)
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Indiana stoner metal project Couchlock delivers hazy, fuzz-drenched riffs designed to plant you firmly in your seat. The music leans into repetition and warm tonal density, letting grooves breathe and expand.
Heavy metal band from Albi in the Tarn, France, active since 2005. They deliver classic heavy metal from the Occitan heartland.
Richmond, Virginia's Cough are one of the defining names in American doom and sludge metal, known for suffocating low-tuned riffs and punishing tempos. Their albums feel like descending into a tar pit — slow, dark, and inescapable.
Both emerging from Richmond, Virginia's extraordinarily fertile doom scene, Cough and Windhand joined forces for the 2013 split LP Reflection of the Negative, a 37-minute immersive descent through suffocating sludge and narcotic stoner doom that earned an effusive Pitchfork review and positioned Richmond as a center of American heavy music. Separately, Cough — formed in 2005 — trafficked in harrowing, noise-infused doom, while Windhand — formed in 2008 — developed a more melodic, hypnotic strain of the genre, their collaboration distilling both bands' strengths into a landmark document of 21st-century doom.
Sludge-stoner act from the Netherlands, formed in 2024. Cough Syrup with the Goths — a memorably eccentric name — delivers heavy, haze-drenched sludge.
Death-stoner metal band from Tampere, Finland, active since 2012. They merge death metal aggression with stoner metal's heavy grooves.
Crossover thrash band from Serres in northern Greece, formed in 2019. They blend thrash metal with hardcore punk energy from the Macedonian region.
Baltimore technical deathcore act Couldcareless push brutal complexity to the forefront, blending technical death metal precision with the breakdown-driven structure of deathcore. Their playing is dense and demanding, rewarding close attention.
Detroit's Couloir operate in the atmospheric and post-black metal space, crafting expansive, textured compositions that move between glacial beauty and blasting ferocity. Their music reflects the industrial isolation and sprawl of their city.
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