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Featured Album
Butterflies (2025)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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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Swallow the Sky is a doom/sludge metal band from the Tri-Cities area of Tennessee, formed in 2015, combining noise-laced heaviness with the slow, suffocating dynamics of Southern-influenced sludge.
Swallowed Whole is a Seattle, Washington band formed in 2018 that fuses death metal, doom, and black metal into a dense, morbid sound drawing from the darkest corners of Pacific Northwest extreme metal.
Swamp Hawk is a stoner/doom metal band from Lexington, Kentucky, formed in 2018, blending slow, riff-driven grooves with psychedelic undertones in the tradition of Southern-influenced heavy rock.
Swamp Lantern is a Seattle, Washington band formed in 2020 that merges psychedelic doom with black metal, conjuring dense, murky atmospheres that reflect the Pacific Northwest's overcast and foreboding landscape.
Swamp Lord is a Kalamazoo, Michigan band formed in 2016 that blends death/doom metal with hardcore punk sensibilities, creating a suffocating sound that bridges extreme metal and the raw energy of hardcore.
Missoula, Montana doom and stoner metal outfit formed in 2013, delivering slow-burning, fuzz-drenched riffs rooted in the tradition of Southern-inflected heavy rock. Their sound leans into the murky, psychedelic end of the stoner doom spectrum.
Visalia, California doom and sludge metal band formed in 2009, crafting slow, oppressive music that blends the tar-thick weight of sludge with traditional doom metal melancholy, rooted in California's fertile underground heavy scene.
American black and doom metal project formed in 2017, merging the cold malevolence of black metal with the glacial, suffocating heaviness of doom metal into a dismal and atmosphere-heavy sound.
Tulsa, Oklahoma sludge and doom metal band formed in 2013, heaving through slow, punishing riffs that reflect the heavy, earthbound sound of the American South's underground sludge tradition.
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