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Slaughter & Apparatus - A Methodical Overture (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Doom and sludge metal band from Liverpool, England, active since 2013. Coltsblood craft crushing, filthy doom-sludge from the Merseyside underground.
Hungarian death-grind and sludge project formed in 2021. Communist Holocaust channels politically charged fury through a volatile mix of grindcore blasts and sludge-laden weight.
Legendary doom-sludge-stoner metal band from Liverpool, England, active since 2007. Conan are renowned for their absolutely crushing, caveman-heavy approach to doom-sludge, earning them a devoted international following.
Death-doom-sludge metal band from Marburg, Germany, formed in 2023. They layer crushing doom and sludge weight with death metal aggression from the Hessian university city.
Sludge metal band from Tampere, Finland, active since 2008. They deliver crushing, oppressive sludge from Finland's third-largest city.
Black-death-sludge act from Catania, Sicily, with origins stretching back to 2000. Consumer has spent over two decades merging extreme subgenres from beneath the shadow of Mount Etna.
Doom and sludge metal band from Bilbao in the Basque Country, Spain, formed in 2018. They craft oppressive, slow-burning heaviness from the industrial Basque heartland.
Sludge metal band from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2024. They deliver crushing, oppressive sludge from the Alsatian capital.
Sofia-based groove and sludge metal act formed in 2011 by members of several Bulgarian underground bands including KPD-0, GRAD, and Osil Amuk. Their 2014 full-length Crawling Under The Heavy Foot Of Addiction layers stoner-tinged heaviness over grinding sludge grooves.
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