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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Stoner/sludge/doom metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, active since 2011. Their crushing blend of stoner groove, sludge weight, and doom heaviness creates an immersive sonic assault.
Death metal and grindcore act from Liverpool, active since 2021. Their grotesque surgical name matches visceral extremity from one of northwest England's most storied cities.
Sludge/groove metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2018. Their crushing blend of sludge weight and groove metal rhythms creates a headbanging assault from the Catalan capital.
Sludge/doom/thrash metal band from Bilbao, Spain, active since 2007. Nearly two decades of genre-spanning extremity merging sludge, doom, and thrash from the Basque industrial capital.
Horndal is a sludge metal/hardcore band from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2017 and delivering crushing, suffocating heaviness from the low end. The project channels the abrasive, punishing weight of sludge metal.
Horns of Anguish is a sludge/doom metal band from Ystad, Sweden, formed in 2009. They channel crushing sludge-doom through abrasive riffs and oppressive weight.
Stoner/sludge metal band from the Basque Country, Spain, formed in 2020. Their thick, fuzz-laden sound channels the heavy grooves of stoner sludge from the green hills of Euskal Herria.
Stoner/doom/sludge metal band from Hondarribia, Spain, formed in 2018. Their crushingly heavy blend of stoner, doom, and sludge emerges from the picturesque Basque-French border town.
House Anxiety is a sludge/doom metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2017. They channel crushing sludge-doom through abrasive riffs and oppressive weight.
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