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Featured Album
The Blind Leading The Blind (2018)
Featured Grindcore Album
Scum (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Doom-sludge act from Moscow, active since 2013. Crypt Jaintor delivers crushing, slow-burning heaviness from the Russian capital.
Death-doom-sludge act from Catania, Sicily, active since 2015. Cryptrip merges crushing doom with death metal weight from beneath Mount Etna.
Black-doom-sludge metal band from Lappeenranta, Finland, emerging in 2025. They merge black metal darkness with doom-sludge weight from the Finnish-Russian borderlands.
Doom and sludge metal band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2009. They deliver thick, oppressive doom-sludge from the Catalan capital.
Sludge metal band from Grimsby, England, formed in 2017. They deliver thick, oppressive sludge from the Lincolnshire coast.
Post-metal and sludge act from Umeå, active since 2001. Cult of Luna is one of Sweden's most internationally acclaimed post-metal bands, pioneering atmospheric, cinematic heaviness over more than two decades.
Sludge metal band from Cologne, Germany, active since 2013. They deliver thick, oppressive sludge from the Rhineland's cultural capital.
Doom-sludge-stoner metal band from Cannes on the French Riviera, formed in 2023. They deliver thick, cannabis-tinged doom-sludge from the glamorous Cote d'Azur.
Crust punk and sludge metal band from Hof in Upper Franconia, Germany, formed in 2020. They fuse the raw political fury of crust punk with sludge metal's oppressive weight.
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