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Wake up Dead (feat. Dave Mustaine) (2022)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Greensboro, North Carolina's Mourning Cloak have been dragging doom and sludge into the Southern underground since 2013, pairing monolithic riffs with a feedback-laced heaviness that owes as much to noise as it does to traditional doom.
Laurel, Montana's Mourning Dust occupy a rare and remote corner of the American underground, blending black metal's rawness with the hazy, psychedelic weight of doom and sludge — music that sounds like the vast Montana landscape turned hostile.
Thunderous Stoner / Sludge / Progressive Metal out of Texas.
Portland, Oregon's Mouth of Maggots deal in the uglier, filthier end of sludge metal — corrosive, feedback-soaked, and rooted in the Pacific Northwest's deep tradition of heavy, noise-informed extremity.
Crushing Sludge / Doom Metal out of Texas.
Mesa, Arizona's Mouthbreather have been crafting heavy, oppressive sludge and doom metal since 2012, pairing abrasive textures and deliberately sluggish tempos with a raw energy native to the Southwest's underground heavy music community.
Fayetteville, Arkansas' Mud Lung have been churning out slow, tar-thick sludge and doom since 2013, with a sound that captures the oppressive humidity and isolation of the Ozarks in layers of distorted feedback and downtuned misery.
Virginia Beach veterans Mugwart have been grinding out sludge and stoner metal since 2003, building a reputation on thick, fuzzed-out riffs and the kind of slow-burn heaviness that rewards patient listeners.
Portland, Maine's Mugwort is a sludge-doom project that trades in oppressive atmosphere and crawling tempos, reflecting the cold, isolated quality of the Northeast in every slow, crushing note.
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