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Actin' Up (2023)
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The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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The Atlantic Albums (2019)
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Milwaukee band formed in 2016 fusing death, thrash, and groove metal into a hard-hitting hybrid that reflects the Midwest's long tradition of no-frills, riff-driven heaviness.
Slugbeast grind goregrind from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2019. Their mollusk-monster portmanteau channels the grotesquerie of slug-creature hybrids into compositions of anonymous, compact extremity.
Grand Rapids, Michigan band formed in 2021 forging a volatile mix of black metal, death metal, and sludge, combining extremity and abrasion across a broad spectrum of underground styles.
Greenville, South Carolina band formed in 2022 blending grindcore, death metal, and crust punk into a furious, politically-charged noise assault in the tradition of Southern hardcore-metal crossover.
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.
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