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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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Sludge-stoner act from Stockholm, formed in 2021. Chaos Wielder delivers heavy, fuzz-laden grooves from the Swedish capital.
Sludge and stoner metal band from Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England, formed in 2023. They deliver thick, fuzz-laden heaviness.
Post-metal-sludge act from Glazov in the Udmurt Republic, formed in 2025. Charity Unit delivers atmospheric heaviness from the remote Ural region.
Doom and sludge metal trio from Neuchatel, Switzerland, formed in 2014 as a duet by Thierry and Arnaud. Their releases like Kind Of Savagery embody a stripped-down approach centered on crushing heaviness.
Atmospheric sludge metal and post-rock quartet from the Waasland region of Belgium, active since 2014. Their debut 'Dageraad,' recorded in the woods of Daknam and released through Consouling Sounds, blends ambient textures with crushing doom and drone.
Doom and sludge metal band from Bournemouth, England, formed in 2015. They deliver crushing doom-sludge from the Dorset coast.
Sludge metal band from Hamburg, Germany, active since 2015. They craft massive, slow-burning heaviness with thick, distorted riffs from the Hanseatic port city.
Progressive sludge metal band from Vienna, founded in 2017, combining guttural and clean vocals over heavy, slow-moving riffage with blastbeats and atmospheric passages. Their 2023 EP 'Stray Dogs' earned praise from No Clean Singing and The Obelisk for its refusal to be confined to a single aesthetic.
Post-black-sludge act from Poznań, formed in 2020. Choroszcz — named after a Polish town — blends atmospheric black metal with sludge and post-metal textures.
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