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Featured Album
Everyone's Talking! (2025)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Blood Dynasty (24-bit HD audio) (2024)
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San Antonio doom/sludge band that buries listeners under slow, crushing riffs and a suffocating low-end. Their bleak sonic weight reflects the heaviest strains of Southern sludge.
Boston doom and stoner metal band that builds massive, slow-rolling riffs on a foundation of fuzz and psychedelia. Their music has the density of stone and the haze of desert heat.
New York death doom band that moves between sepulchral dirges and bursts of death metal aggression. Their songs carry real emotional weight, steeped in despair and murky heaviness.
Kansas City doom and funeral doom band whose post-metal atmosphere stretches songs into vast, mournful landscapes. Their music moves with glacial patience and devastating emotional weight.
St. Petersburg, FL doom metal band that crafts slow, heavy music steeped in the humid oppressiveness of the Florida underground. Their riffs sink like anchors and linger long after the last note fades.
Underground psychedelic doom conjuring dark fantasy and occult allegory. Featured on the 'Doomed & Stoned in Texas' compilation.
San Marcos, TX doom and stoner metal band that mixes heavy psych fuzz with the dirge-like pace of traditional doom. They ride the slow burn of Texas heat into heavy, hazy oblivion.
Champaign, IL doom and stoner metal band that exhales enormous, fuzz-drenched riffs at a pace that borders on ceremonial. Their music is heavy in the way weather systems are heavy.
Charlotte, NC doom and stoner metal band that builds slow, towering walls of fuzz and feeds them through reverb-soaked amplifiers. They have a flair for the dramatic and the catastrophically heavy.
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