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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)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Conquer (feat. Josh Mowery of Catch Your Breath) (2025)
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Providence, Rhode Island outfit Sponch traffics in abrasive sludge and doom metal, blending crushing low-end riffs with noise-inflected textures since forming in 2017.
San Antonio, Texas stoner and sludge metal band Spunkous formed in 2023, fusing the hazy, heavy grooves of stoner metal with the abrasive weight of sludge within San Antonio's active underground scene.
Pacifica, California sludge metal outfit Squalus formed in 2017, delivering the slow, distortion-heavy weight of sludge metal from the Bay Area coastline with a suitably murky and oppressive sonic identity.
Raleigh, North Carolina's Squatch have fused thrash and sludge metal since 2010, combining the aggression of thrash with the punishing, slow-grinding heaviness of sludge to form a distinctly caustic sound.
Rust Belt Sludge Punk from the hills of Southern Ohio.
St. Bastard is a Brooklyn-based sludge and doom metal band formed in 2015, combining the slow, crushing weight of doom with sludge metal's abrasive, feedback-drenched heaviness.
Stake is a northeast Indiana sludge and groove metal band formed in 2019, combining the sludgy low-end heaviness of post-hardcore-influenced metal with the rhythmic, syncopated attack of groove metal.
Stalemate of Wills is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania sludge, stoner, and doom metal band formed in 2022, conjuring slow, hazy heaviness from the crossroads of sludge's abrasion and stoner doom's hypnotic weight.
Stank is a Norfolk, Virginia sludge metal band formed in 2018, wallowing in the filthy, feedback-soaked heaviness of Southern-influenced sludge with a coastal edge drawn from the Hampton Roads music scene.
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