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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Wake up Dead (feat. Dave Mustaine) (2022)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Battle Creek death metal project from the Michigan underground.
Valdese, North Carolina sludge metal project whose releases Arctic Noise and Andromedas Colossus span from frigid isolation to cosmic scale. Foothills Appalachia proving unexpectedly fertile ground for experimental sludge.
Kansas City sludge metal project from the Missouri underground.
Knoxville sludge metal project channeling East Tennessee mountain isolation into crushing heaviness.
Grants Pass, Oregon death metal project whose 2019 self-titled EP delivers extremity from southern Oregon's Rogue Valley. Named after wingless insects, their music stays grounded in earthbound heaviness.
Chicago sludge metal project active since 2010. Three releases including the simply titled I and the later Purgative deliver thick, punishing heaviness that channels the Midwest's industrial landscape into music built for endurance.
Nashville sludge unit that layers thick, tar-coated riffs with Southern grit, channeling the swamp-heavy murk of Tennessee's underground into punishing, slow-burn heaviness.
Chico, California sludge metal veterans whose 2026 album THE EARTH IS BREATHING BENEATH ME delivers tectonic heaviness. The all-caps title and nature-as-threat imagery fit their brand of environmentally aware, apocalyptically heavy sludge.
San Jose sludge metal project with six catalog-numbered releases since 2014. Their meticulous archival system — each release tagged with an ADR number — suggests a band that treats sludge metal with curatorial precision from the South Bay.
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