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Spliffripper is a doom and sludge metal band from Kalispell, Montana, formed in 2021, offering slow, crushing heaviness from the remote northern Rockies, where the isolation of the landscape matches the oppressive weight of the music.
Splintr is a sludge metal band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 2025, emerging from the same Pacific Northwest underground that has long cultivated heavy, abrasive music built on low-end torment and feedback-laced riffs.
Split Lung is a stoner, sludge, and doom metal band from Fresno, California, formed in 2015, specializing in heavy, slow-burning riffs and oppressive atmosphere within the Central Valley's underground heavy music scene.
Splitting Septum is a sludge, thrash, and hardcore band from Indiana, formed in 2025, blending the downtuned abrasion of sludge metal with thrash aggression and hardcore's confrontational energy.
Providence, Rhode Island outfit Sponch traffics in abrasive sludge and doom metal, blending crushing low-end riffs with noise-inflected textures since forming in 2017.
San Antonio, Texas stoner and sludge metal band Spunkous formed in 2023, fusing the hazy, heavy grooves of stoner metal with the abrasive weight of sludge within San Antonio's active underground scene.
Pacifica, California sludge metal outfit Squalus formed in 2017, delivering the slow, distortion-heavy weight of sludge metal from the Bay Area coastline with a suitably murky and oppressive sonic identity.
Raleigh, North Carolina's Squatch have fused thrash and sludge metal since 2010, combining the aggression of thrash with the punishing, slow-grinding heaviness of sludge to form a distinctly caustic sound.
Rust Belt Sludge Punk from the hills of Southern Ohio.
St. Bastard is a Brooklyn-based sludge and doom metal band formed in 2015, combining the slow, crushing weight of doom with sludge metal's abrasive, feedback-drenched heaviness.
Stake is a northeast Indiana sludge and groove metal band formed in 2019, combining the sludgy low-end heaviness of post-hardcore-influenced metal with the rhythmic, syncopated attack of groove metal.
Stalemate of Wills is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania sludge, stoner, and doom metal band formed in 2022, conjuring slow, hazy heaviness from the crossroads of sludge's abrasion and stoner doom's hypnotic weight.
Stank is a Norfolk, Virginia sludge metal band formed in 2018, wallowing in the filthy, feedback-soaked heaviness of Southern-influenced sludge with a coastal edge drawn from the Hampton Roads music scene.
New Haven, Connecticut doom/sludge/black metal band formed in 2024, Starvation combines the dragging heaviness of sludge, the bleakness of black metal, and the oppressive weight of doom into a suffocating sonic whole.
Fayetteville, Arkansas sludge/doom metal band formed in 2024, Stash Hag deal in slow, corrosive heaviness rooted in the Southern sludge tradition with a crushing low-end focus.
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