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Doom/sludge metal act from Bury St. Edmunds, formed in 2021. Their music lurches forward with deliberate, oppressive weight, burying the listener beneath layers of corroded guitar tone.
Sludge metal outfit from Glasgow, formed in 2017. Their music moves with the grinding inevitability of industrial machinery, all corroded tones and barely controlled fury.
German sludge/doom metal band from Münster, formed in 2021. They craft slow, crushing sludge-doom from the Westphalian lowlands.
Doom/sludge metal band from Beziers in southern France, formed in 2020. Their 2022 EP Prelude was recorded live and delivers extended, atmospheric compositions steeped in crushing heaviness, with more doom promised on the horizon.
German sludge metal band from Osnabrück and Ingolstadt, active since 2008. They deliver murky, crushing sludge metal with nearly two decades of experience.
Sludge metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, active since 2015. They deliver the abrasive, slow-churning heaviness of sludge metal from the Bulgarian capital.
Brutality Will Prevail formed in Cardiff, Wales in 2005, building a following in the UK metallic hardcore scene with a sound that fused heavy hardcore with elements of sludge metal, doom, and Southern rock. Over a seventeen-year career the band released six studio albums, beginning with Forgotten Soul (2009) and culminating with Misery Sequence (2019), each progressively heavier and more atmospheric. They officially disbanded in 2022, leaving behind one of the most consistent bodies of work in British hardcore.
Budapest-based doom/sludge outfit active since 2020, 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.
Sludge metal band from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, active since 2015. They deliver the low-end heaviness and abrasive textures that define the sludge metal sound.
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