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Infinite Terror (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Oostburg-based sludge metal/hardcore outfit active since 2019, fusing sludge's corrosive weight with hardcore punk's confrontational energy and brevity. Their caustic sound channels the aggression of both worlds into a punishing, feedback-laden assault.
Sludge metal outfit from Venice, formed in 2012. Their music moves with the grinding inevitability of industrial machinery, all corroded tones and barely controlled fury.
Newport-based sludge metal/hardcore outfit active since 2024, fusing sludge's corrosive weight with hardcore punk's confrontational energy and brevity. Their caustic sound channels the aggression of both worlds into a punishing, feedback-laden assault.
Finnish sludge/doom/death metal band from Kitee, formed in 2018. They merge three crushing genres into a bloody, oppressive wall of sound from eastern Finland.
Sludge metal outfit from London, formed in 2016. Their music moves with the grinding inevitability of industrial machinery, all corroded tones and barely controlled fury.
Czech sludge/doom metal band from Holešov, formed in 2014, incorporating drone and noise elements into their crushing sound. Their split release Fullmoon Alchemy Narcotic Session with DROM showcases their ritualistic approach to extreme heaviness.
Kent-based death/sludge metal act active since 2024, combining death metal's aggressive vocals and riffing with sludge's corrosive, feedback-drenched heaviness. Their sound inhabits the grimy intersection where both genres collide at maximum weight.
Sludge metal band from Mons, Belgium, active since 2014. They deal in the thick, abrasive heaviness and slow-grinding punishment that defines sludge metal.
German blackened sludge and post-metal band from Mainz, formed in 2015. They merge blackened sludge metal's toxic heaviness with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
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