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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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Portland, Oregon sludge metal act formed in 2022, infusing their crushing sound with playful Indiana Jones-inspired cinematic imagery.
Instrumental doom — debut is two tracks spanning 38 minutes, mastered by Proscriptor McGovern of Absu. Follow-up is a single 37-minute track.
Born as an acoustic jam project in Birmingham, Alabama in 2004, Capsized retooled into a full-volume sludge and post-metal force by 2012, appearing on Weedian's 2024 compilation.
Jonesboro, Arkansas sludge metal project spending the 2010s working through themes of hatred and inner struggle in the isolationist tradition of heavy, feedback-soaked sludge before going silent.
Long Island, New York death metal and hardcore hybrid that emerged in 2014, blending the brute force of death metal with the urgent, confrontational energy of hardcore.
Austin outfit combining the slow burn of doom with sludge metal's abrasive grit, channeling the heat and intensity of the Texas underground into bleak, feedback-drenched soundscapes.
Louisiana doom and sludge outfit from Port Allen drawing on the murky, oppressive atmosphere of the Gulf South, layering post-metal dynamics over crushed, tar-thick riffs.
A nascent doom and sludge outfit from Albany drawing on the slow, crushing weight of funeral doom paired with the corrosive grit of sludge, named after the legendary Arthurian dagger.
Columbia, SC doom and sludge act channeling the swampy, southern-tinged heaviness that the region breeds naturally, building slow-crawling riffs into dense, oppressive walls of sound with a mythology-laced edge.
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