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Butterflies (2025)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
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
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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Hattiesburg's Emerald Heavy live up to their name with Southern-drenched sludge and doom that moves like storm weather rolling in off the Gulf — slow, humid, and impossible to outrun.
Austin's Emerald Wolfen channel the city's storied stoner and doom heritage into slow, lysergic riff cycles built for volume and open space — music that feels as much at home in the Texas Hill Country as it does in a sweat-soaked venue.
Colossal Stoner / Doom Metal out of Texas.
Yorba Linda's Emphysema pull doom and death metal into a dense, suffocating collision, building songs that labor under their own weight with the slow-motion menace the subgenre demands.
Brooklyn's Empire of Dust arrived in 2023 blending melodic thrash aggression with metalcore structure, channeling New York City's restless energy into a sound that moves between technical riffing and muscular breakdown momentum.
Minneapolis outfit Empires have been dragging doom and sludge through post-metal's murky corridors since 2008, building suffocating walls of slow-motion riff work layered with atmospheric texture.
Atlanta's Empty Black wallow in the Southern sludge tradition — stoner-thick riffs baked in tar and doom, the kind of slow-burn heaviness the city's heavy underground has perfected.
Atlanta-based Encoffination drag doom and death metal to their slowest, most funeral-paced extremes, burying their sound under layers of sepulchral weight and murk. Few bands make the grave feel this tangible.
Hailing from Toutle, Washington — a small town in the shadow of Mount St. Helens — Encountered deliver sludge-drenched doom metal with the slow, inevitable weight of a lava field. Formed in 2016, the landscape seems to seep into every note.
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