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Viribus Unitis (2025)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Nihility (2002)
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Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Post-metal-sludge-stoner act from Faro in the Algarve, active since 2016. Crosta — Portuguese for 'crust' — delivers heavy, atmospheric post-metal from Portugal's sunny south.
Sludge and post-metal band from Ghent, Belgium, active since 2006. They layer heavy sludge textures with post-metal atmospherics, creating expansive and crushing soundscapes from one of Flanders' cultural capitals.
Sludge and stoner metal band from Brighton, England, formed in 2021. They deliver thick, fuzz-laden heaviness from the English south coast.
Sludge-thrash metal band from Versailles, France, formed in 2016. They merge sludge weight with thrash aggression from the Parisian suburbs.
Doom-sludge metal band from Potsdam, Germany, active since 2006. With nearly two decades of crushing heaviness, Crowskin are veterans of the Brandenburg doom-sludge scene.
Sludge metal act from Vila do Conde on Portugal's northern Atlantic coast, active since 2010. Crushing Sun has delivered over a decade of heavyweight sludge from the Minho littoral.
Doom-sludge act from Moscow, active since 2013. Crypt Jaintor delivers crushing, slow-burning heaviness from the Russian capital.
Death-doom-sludge act from Catania, Sicily, active since 2015. Cryptrip merges crushing doom with death metal weight from beneath Mount Etna.
Black-doom-sludge metal band from Lappeenranta, Finland, emerging in 2025. They merge black metal darkness with doom-sludge weight from the Finnish-Russian borderlands.
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