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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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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.
Vermont's Emerther drag groove metal and sludge through the grim quiet of St. Albans, building songs out of lumbering mid-tempo riffs and a swampy thickness that feels disconnected from any coastal trend.
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.
Richmond's Empty Hands collide hardcore's blunt-force urgency with sludge metal's grinding weight, a bruising combination forged in a city with deep roots in both traditions.
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.
Suffocating Sludge / Doom Metal out of Texas.
Nebraska's Endless Bummer smears drone, sludge, and doom into a suffocating slow-motion dirge that feels as flat and relentless as the Great Plains themselves. Formed in 2013, their music is the sound of existential weight given a distortion pedal.
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