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Featured Album
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)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Conquer (feat. Josh Mowery of Catch Your Breath) (2025)
05/24 @ The Triffid, Newstead
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Speaker Eater is an atmospheric sludge and doom metal band from Wausau, Wisconsin, formed in 2011, building massive, slow-burning compositions that blend post-hardcore dynamics with the crushing weight of sludge and the desolate sprawl of atmospheric doom.
Spellchucker is a doom/sludge metal band from Cleveland, Ohio, formed in 2018, delivering slow, oppressively heavy music that fuses traditional doom's despair with sludge metal's abrasive, feedback-drenched textures.
Spewdriver is a Kansas City sludge metal band formed in 2023, churning out oppressive, feedback-soaked riffs rooted in the down-tuned ugliness that defines the genre.
Spirit Guardian is a sludge metal band from Birmingham, Alabama, formed in 2019, drawing on the Southern heaviness and abrasive textures that characterize the region's robust sludge tradition.
Spliff Witch is a doom, stoner, and sludge metal band from Anderson, South Carolina, formed in 2021, delivering hazy, heavy-riffed music steeped in the psychedelic fatigue and swamp-weight of the Southern sludge tradition.
Spliffripper is a doom and sludge metal band from Kalispell, Montana, formed in 2021, offering slow, crushing heaviness from the remote northern Rockies, where the isolation of the landscape matches the oppressive weight of the music.
Splintr is a sludge metal band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 2025, emerging from the same Pacific Northwest underground that has long cultivated heavy, abrasive music built on low-end torment and feedback-laced riffs.
Split Lung is a stoner, sludge, and doom metal band from Fresno, California, formed in 2015, specializing in heavy, slow-burning riffs and oppressive atmosphere within the Central Valley's underground heavy music scene.
Splitting Septum is a sludge, thrash, and hardcore band from Indiana, formed in 2025, blending the downtuned abrasion of sludge metal with thrash aggression and hardcore's confrontational energy.
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