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Butterflies (2025)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Sonic Brew 20th Anniversary Blend 5.99 - 5.19 (2019)
05/29 @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
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Evidence (2023)
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Montana's Dead Sorcery arrived in 2024 with sludge and stoner doom built for remote, mountainous terrain — riff-heavy, occult-tinged, and slow enough to let every note sink in. A promising new entry in the Pacific Northwest-adjacent heavy underground.
Denver's Dead Temple pair traditional heavy metal with the ponderous weight of doom, constructing riff-driven music that feels genuinely timeless. Since 2015 they've been one of Colorado's more reliable proponents of guitar-forward, no-frills heavy metal.
Blackened sludge/doom metal with crust influences from Dallas.
Fayetteville, Arkansas's Deadbird have been refining their harrowing blend of doom and sludge since 2006, steeped in the bleakness of the Ozark underground. Their slow-churning, feedback-drenched sound carries the weight of genuinely Southern darkness.
Chicago's Deadimalone. have been hauling doom and sludge through the city's grey industrial sprawl since 2016, leaning into the kind of heavy that feels like weight rather than volume. The period in their name feels intentional — a full stop on all optimism.
Atlanta's Deadlink formed in 2021 threading death metal ferocity through the slow-moving wreckage of sludge and doom, creating something that crawls and bludgeons in equal measure. Their city's heavy scene backs them up.
Xenia, Ohio's Deadly Sin (Sloth) embody their chosen vice completely, building doom and sludge metal that moves at its own glacial pace with zero interest in efficiency since 2016. The parenthetical is a thesis statement.
Columbus, Ohio's Deadsea have been plumbing the depths of melodic doom/death since 2003, building a sound as heavy and lightless as the body of water they named themselves after. Mournful leads and crushing low-end define their approach.
Flagstaff, Arizona's Deadtouch drag sludge and doom together under the weight of high-altitude isolation, crafting music that crawls and corrodes in equal measure since 2018. The desert gives their heaviness a particular dryness and desolation.
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