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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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London-based doom/sludge outfit active since 2024, 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 sludge/doom metal band from Turku, formed in 2020. They craft murky sludge-doom from Finland's former capital.
Rotherham-based sludge metal act active since 2021, 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.
Liverpool-based doom/sludge outfit active since 2015, 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.
Doom/sludge metal act from Brighton, formed in 2021. Their music lurches forward with deliberate, oppressive weight, burying the listener beneath layers of corroded guitar tone.
Lviv-based sludge metal act active since 2020, 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 metal outfit from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2015. Their music moves with the grinding inevitability of industrial machinery, all corroded tones and barely controlled fury.
Arnhem/Bennekom-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2012, conjuring thick clouds of fuzz-laden riffage and hypnotic, groove-driven compositions. Their sound channels the haze of 1970s proto-metal through a modern lens of distortion-worship and lysergic exploration.
St. Albans-based stoner/sludge metal outfit active since 2012, laying down thick, fuzz-caked riffs that move at a lumbering, hypnotic pace. Their sound occupies the hazy intersection where stoner metal's psychedelic warmth meets sludge's abrasive hostility.
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