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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Wake up Dead (feat. Dave Mustaine) (2022)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Sludge metal band from Lansdale, Pennsylvania, formed in 2014, built on slow, crushing riffs and the corrosive sonic weight characteristic of the genre.
Boston, Massachusetts sludge metal band formed in 2021, dredging up slow, feedback-drenched riffs and oppressive heaviness in the manner of the Northeast's underground heavy music scene.
Portland, Oregon psychedelic doom/sludge metal band active since 2012, layering crushing low-end weight with hazy, hallucinatory atmospheres in the Pacific Northwest tradition of slow and heavy music.
Tung is a sludge metal band from Ventura, California, formed in 2019, delivering slow-grinding heaviness rooted in the coastally-tinged Southern California underground scene.
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Tunnell is a Columbus, Ohio sludge and stoner metal band formed in 2021, combining fuzz-drenched riffs with the grit and drag of sludge to create a dense, oppressive sonic presence.
Tusk is a doom and sludge metal band from Indianapolis, Indiana, formed in 2009, delivering slow, mammoth riffs soaked in distortion and rooted in the heaviest end of the sludge-doom spectrum.
Tusko is a sludge and groove metal band from Canton, Ohio, formed in 2015, melding the lurching heaviness of sludge with groove metal's infectious rhythmic punch.
Twin Lords is a grindcore and sludge metal band from Ithaca, New York, formed in 2012, merging the short, brutal blasts of grindcore with the thick, lurching weight of sludge metal into a punishing hybrid sound.
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