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Ultimate Rarest Trax! 1981-1983 (2024)
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Sunday People [HVNMD001] (2023)
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Crushing Sludge / Stoner Metal / Rock from Corpus Christi.
Swnw is an industrial sludge metal project formed in 2023, combining the mechanical grind of industrial metal with the sludge metal's slow, distorted heaviness into a harsh, rhythmic whole.
Sword is a sludge and doom metal band from Richmond, Virginia, formed in 2015, drawing on that city's storied heavy underground to deliver low, slow, and punishing guitar-driven music.
Albuquerque, New Mexico's Sword Horse have played sludge and doom metal since 2018, incorporating noise elements into their heavy, slow-churning sound shaped by the high desert Southwest.
Nashville outfit formed in 2022 that mashes together sludge metal's crushing low-end, powerviolence urgency, and power metal's aggression into a deliberately abrasive and genre-defiant sound.
Sludge metal band from Syracuse, New York, formed in 2020, dealing in slow, crushing riffs and abrasive dynamics characteristic of the post-Southern sludge tradition.
Syntax Error is a sludge metal band from Westlake, Ohio, formed in 2020, delivering the slow-grinding riffs and oppressive atmosphere characteristic of the genre.
Syzslak is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania band formed in 2012 that combines the toxic heaviness of sludge and stoner metal with the chaotic noise-blast of grindcore into a deliberately abrasive and unpredictable sound.
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