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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Santa Fe, New Mexico's Colossal Swan Dive brings sludge metal's tortured slowness to the high desert, a project that suits the stark, wide-open landscape of northern New Mexico with unexpected precision.
Gainesville's Colossus wade through swamps of doom and sludge, wringing slow, heavy misery from every note. Their riffs lumber with the weight of oppressive Southern heat.
Dual-vocalist sludge metal/hardcore featuring Andrea Russi and Alyce H. Smith up front. A punishing addition to Houston's heavy underground.
New Hampshire's Come to Grief are a sludge-doom institution, dragging listeners through the most suffocating depths the genre has to offer. Their slow, mountainous riffs carry the misery of a long New England winter into every note.
Summerville, South Carolina's Compel traffic in slow-burning sludge and stoner metal, layering distorted riffs and hazy grooves into a suffocating wall of Southern-tinged heaviness.
Barre, Massachusetts's Conclave deal in slow, oppressive sludge and stoner metal, piling on massive riffs and hazy low-end weight to create music that feels genuinely immovable.
Portland, Maine doom/sludge duo known for mammoth low-tuned riffs and crushing, suffocating heaviness rooted in the cold Maine wilderness. Their music evokes the weight and desolation of the New England landscape.
Indianapolis sludge metal band building walls of crushing, feedback-drenched sound in the Midwestern underground. Their slow, punishing riffs and bleak atmosphere carry the weight of the genre's heaviest practitioners.
Savannah's Conquer/Devour bring the swampy weight of Southern metal into slow-grinding sludge territory, soaking their riffs in the oppressive heat and rot of coastal Georgia.
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