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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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San Antonio doom/sludge band that buries listeners under slow, crushing riffs and a suffocating low-end. Their bleak sonic weight reflects the heaviest strains of Southern sludge.
Minneapolis sludge band Couch bury their riffs under layers of distortion and feedback, playing slow and heavy with a sardonic edge baked into the name. Their music drags with purpose, each note carrying significant weight.
Richmond, Virginia's Cough are one of the defining names in American doom and sludge metal, known for suffocating low-tuned riffs and punishing tempos. Their albums feel like descending into a tar pit — slow, dark, and inescapable.
Jacksonville doom/sludge duo Count the Dead play with the kind of bleak economy that the genres demand — slow riffs, heavy hearts, no excess. Their Florida roots add a sun-bleached desolation to the characteristic sludge murk.
Wilmington, Delaware's Count von Count deliver heavy sludge metal that doesn't take itself too seriously while still hitting hard. Behind the tongue-in-cheek name is a band that knows how to craft a slow, grinding assault.
New Jersey sludge outfit whose slow, crushing riffs drag through tar and feedback with little mercy. Their material leans into heavy repetition and a palpable sense of self-destruction.
New York doom and sludge act that wallows in oppressive tempos and dense, distorted heaviness. Their sound sits at the intersection of grief and fury, slow-burning and suffocating.
Richmond, Virginia band marrying black metal atmosphere to sludge metal's slow, crushing weight. Their sound carries the city's long tradition of heavy, experimental underground music.
Atlanta doom and sludge outfit dragging Southern heaviness through thick walls of distortion and oppressive low-end. Their sound draws from both the misery of doom and the grimed-out grit of the ATL underground.
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