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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Raw black metal and dark ambient project from Brazil, formed in 2020 and operated by Sluggoth. The project's debut release, 'Unpredictable Death, Not Knowing Will Alive Tomorrow...', was recorded, mixed, and released by Sluggoth in November 2020.
Philadelphia stoner/doom band formed in 2011, trafficking in hazy, amplifier-worship heaviness drawn from the city's underground rock and metal scene.
Slugphlegm deliver doom and sludge metal from Tampere, combining slug-like pacing with phlegmatic thickness. Formed in 2024, they bring mucous-weighted heaviness to the Pirkanmaa doom scene.
Ljubljana's Slugpit pair black and death metal with punk influences from the Slovenian capital since 2024. Their name combining gastropod slime with a fighting pit channels the visceral energy of degraded combat into compositions of freshly-minted, punk-charged extremity.
New Orleans sludge metal band formed in 2012, operating squarely within the city's storied tradition of swampy, slow-burning heaviness pioneered by acts like Eyehategod and Crowbar.
Frederick, Maryland sludge metal band formed in 2015, channeling the grinding, abrasive end of the genre with a raw delivery shaped by the Mid-Atlantic DIY underground.
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Jonkoping's Sluka have been merging death, doom, and sludge metal from the Smaland lakeside city since 2001. A quarter-century from the shores of Lake Vattern, their Swedish name meaning "to swallow" has produced one of the region's most enduring extreme acts.
Utica, New York band formed in 2013 specializing in slam and brutal death metal with deathcore elements, known for bone-crushing low-tuned riffs and guttural vocal extremity.
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