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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
05/15 @ Palladium Times Square, New York City
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Baton Rouge's Slime in the Current have been working raw, unadorned black metal since 2008, bringing the genre's coldest tendencies into Louisiana's characteristically humid underground. Their long tenure marks them as a persistent presence in the Deep South's more extreme and unconventional corners.
Atlanta's Slimed are a 2023-formed death metal act drawing on the Zone 6 area's street-level energy and applying it to the genre's most ferocious end. As a new entry in a city with a growing extreme metal presence, they represent the next wave of Georgia brutality.
Downingtown, Pennsylvania's SlimeLord push death metal into stranger, more experimental terrain, treating the genre as a framework to be warped rather than a template to follow since their 2019 formation. Their willingness to disrupt conventional song structures gives their music an unsettling, unpredictable quality.
Washington State's Slimer blend black and death metal with avant-garde ambition, pursuing a deliberately disorienting sound that resists easy categorization since 2015. Their experimental impulses push them beyond genre convention into territory where atmosphere and abstraction carry equal weight with aggression.
Albuquerque's Slippage anchor themselves in sludge metal's heaviest and most abrasive corner, emerging in 2020 in a city that has quietly developed a reputation for supporting intense, underground-oriented heavy music. Their sound captures the suffocating weight and feedback-laden ugliness central to the genre.
Gassaway, West Virginia's Slith bring black metal's cold, unforgiving sound from one of the more remote corners of the American underground, operating in isolation since their 2023 formation. Their music fits the tradition of raw black metal built in small towns far from any established scene infrastructure.
Portland's Slither fuse post-hardcore's intensity with sludge metal's grinding heaviness, active since 2020 in a city whose underground has long embraced the abrasive edges where punk and metal blur. Their dual-influence approach keeps their sound aggressive and unpredictable in equal measure.
Virginia Beach's Slithis have been delivering straight-forward, skull-crushing death metal since 2016, drawing from the genre's classic playbook of dense riff patterns and guttural extremity. Their coastal Virginia roots place them in a region with a quietly dedicated extreme metal tradition.
Slivers of Silence evolved from heavy/thrash metal into atmospheric/melodic death metal from the Ostrobothnian town of Kauhava, deepening their sound while maintaining their aggressive edge. Active since 2011, they bring quiet-shard intensity to western Finland.
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