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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Doom and sludge metal band from London, active since 2010. They deliver crushing, slow-burning heaviness from the English capital.
Doom and sludge metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2021. They deliver crushing, oppressive doom-sludge from the French capital.
Death-sludge metal band from Vannes in Brittany, France, formed in 2018. They merge death metal aggression with sludge weight from the Morbihan coast.
Sludge metal band from the Berlin/Leipzig corridor, formed in 2022. They deliver thick, oppressive sludge from two of eastern Germany's largest cultural centers.
Groove-sludge act from Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, formed in 2019. Chainsaw Jack delivers heavy, churning riffs from eastern Ukraine.
Post-metal and sludge outfit from Minsk, Belarus, formed in 2018. They craft dense, atmospheric compositions layering crushing sludge riffs over expansive post-metal dynamics.
Sludge-stoner act from Stockholm, formed in 2021. Chaos Wielder delivers heavy, fuzz-laden grooves from the Swedish capital.
Sludge and stoner metal band from Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England, formed in 2023. They deliver thick, fuzz-laden heaviness.
Post-metal-sludge act from Glazov in the Udmurt Republic, formed in 2025. Charity Unit delivers atmospheric heaviness from the remote Ural region.
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