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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)
05/24 @ The Triffid, Newstead
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Stonewielder is a doom/sludge metal band from St. Louis, Missouri, formed in 2025, adding to the city's growing heavy underground with monolithic riff craft and the corrosive, slow-motion brutality of sludge-inflected doom.
Stormbrewer is a sludge metal band from Columbus, Ohio, formed in 2011, crafting slow, distortion-heavy material in the tradition of Southern-influenced heavy sludge.
Story of the Eye is a blackened sludge/doom metal band from Fayetteville, Arkansas, formed in 2019, named after the transgressive Georges Bataille novella and combining the suffocating weight of sludge with black metal's darkness and malice.
Minneapolis, Minnesota trio formed in 2018 operating at the intersection of sludge, stoner, and doom metal, crafting slow-burning, heavily distorted material with a hazy psychedelic undertow.
Ohio-based sludge and stoner metal act formed in 2021, fusing the molasses-slow heaviness of sludge with the fuzz-driven groove of stoner rock for a sound rooted in the American heavy underground.
Denton, Texas sludge and doom metal band formed in 2017, producing slow, heavy music that channels the oppressive atmospherics of doom alongside the abrasive, punk-inflected edge of sludge metal.
Seattle, Washington sludge and doom metal band active since 2000, forging a dense, slow-burning sound that captures the oppressive weight of doom alongside the punk-infused abrasion of sludge metal, reflecting the Pacific Northwest's deep underground roots.
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