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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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St. Louis, Missouri sludge and groove metal band formed in 2023, merging the grimy heaviness of sludge with the rhythmic punch of groove metal.
Crushing Sludge Metal from Fort Worth.
Sullust is a sludge and post-metal band from Bethel, Connecticut, formed in 2019, combining the slow, oppressive weight of sludge with post-metal's expansive, atmosphere-driven arrangements.
Sun Black Smoke is a stoner/sludge metal band from Buffalo, New York, formed in 2013, built on massive, haze-soaked riffs and a thick, abrasive low-end that reflects the industrial grit of their home city.
Sun King Ba is a Chicago, Illinois sludge/stoner metal act formed in 2022, stacking downtuned, smoke-thick riffs over a punishing rhythmic foundation drawn from the city's heavy underground scene.
Sun Rot is a sludge/doom metal band from Tempe, Arizona, formed in 2019, channeling the punishing heat and decay of the desert Southwest into slow, oppressive riffing and corrosive low-end tone.
Sun Splitter is a Chicago, Illinois sludge/doom and industrial noise outfit formed in 2010 in the Bridgeport neighborhood, fusing the crushing weight of sludge metal with abrasive industrial textures and noise elements.
Sunburster is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania sludge/doom/stoner metal band formed in 2012, combining the grime and aggression of sludge with the slow, narcotic groove of stoner and doom.
Sundering Titan is a black/sludge metal and crust punk band from Great Falls, Montana, formed in 2014, combining the nihilistic fury of crust punk with the corrosive heaviness of black and sludge metal.
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