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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Will To Power (24-bit HD audio) (2023)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Conquer (feat. Josh Mowery of Catch Your Breath) (2025)
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Portland, Oregon's Coffin Apartment combine death metal's blunt-force attack with sludge metal's suffocating weight, creating a claustrophobic sound that suits their name well. They're part of Portland's dense and genre-spanning extreme metal underground.
Fargo, North Dakota doom and sludge metal band Coffin Burner channel the flat, frigid desolation of the Northern Plains into slow, oppressive heaviness. They're one of the defining acts of North Dakota's small but determined metal underground.
Miami, Florida sludge metal band Coffin Dancer bring the oppressive heat and murk of South Florida to their slow, punishing sound. They're a welcome addition to Miami's growing heavy underground, operating in the humid space between sludge and doom.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin grindcore and sludge metal band Coffin Dodger combine the abrasive, short-burst brutality of grind with the slow-burn punishment of sludge. They represent a volatile extreme metal hybrid from the Great Lakes underground.
Johnson City, Tennessee's Coffin Smoke grind out slow-burning doom and sludge metal soaked in murk and misery, conjuring a suffocating heaviness that settles in like a fog that never lifts.
Westminster, SC's Coffin Torture drag listeners through oppressive corridors of doom and sludge metal, stacking massive, feedback-drenched riffs with a suffocating sense of dread.
Indianapolis's Coffinworm built a cult following with their caustic mix of black metal, doom, and sludge — bleak, punishing records like IV.I.VIII place them among the Midwest's most uncompromising acts.
COG deliver a corrosive fusion of death and sludge metal — downtuned, grinding riffs collide with visceral intensity in music that prioritizes ugliness and weight above all else.
Chicago's Cokegoat stretch sludge metal across progressive song architectures, blending crushing heaviness with dynamic shifts and a willingness to let songs breathe and evolve over extended running times.
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