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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Slovenian doom/sludge outfit active since 2013, dragging their compositions through a swamp of distortion, feedback, and crushing tempos. Their sound sits at the punishing intersection where doom metal's patience meets sludge's confrontational aggression.
Finnish doom/sludge metal band from Tampere, formed in 2025. They craft blessed doom-sludge from Finland's third-largest city.
Thessaloniki-based sludge/post-metal outfit active since 2018, building dynamic compositions that oscillate between abrasive sludge riffing and atmospheric expanses. Their music trades in tension and release, alternating quiet passages with crushing walls of distortion.
Sludge/doom metal band from Rotherham in South Yorkshire, active since 2008, drawing comparisons to Buzzov-en, Eyehategod, and Iron Monkey. Their Gritfarm EP delivers four tracks of crushing sludge recorded at Full Stack Studios, with new material promised on the horizon.
Spanish sludge metal band from Ispaster in the Basque Country, formed in 2012. They craft crushing sludge metal from the coastal hills of Biscay.
Finnish avant-garde/sludge/post-metal band from Turku, formed in 2020. They push metal boundaries through an experimental fusion of sludge, post-metal, and avant-garde elements.
Finnish sludge/doom metal band from Lahti, formed in 2019. They craft crushing sludge-doom from the Päijänne Tavastia industrial city.
Athens-based sludge metal act active since 2016, delivering corrosive, feedback-drenched heaviness that grinds forward with hostile intent. Their sound channels the genre's essential aggression through punishingly distorted guitar tones and abrasive vocals.
Sludge/doom/death metal band from Sheffield, formed in 2010. They fuse the crushing weight of doom with death metal's intensity and sludge metal's abrasive grime from the steel city's underground.
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