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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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San Antonio trio fusing black metal's cold menace with the suffocating weight of doom and sludge. Their music moves with deliberate malice, rooted deep in the South Texas underground.
Baltimore duo fusing the raw filth of crust punk with sludge metal's lumbering brutality. Their sound is abrasive and uncompromising, carved out of the Chesapeake DIY underground.
Fresno doom and sludge metal band dredging up slow, corrosive heaviness from California's Central Valley underground — suffocating riffs, tortured vocals, and a deliberately punishing pace.
Los Angeles-based Crom cast an unusually wide net across doom, sludge, grind, power, and thrash, resulting in a chaotic and unpredictable strain of heavy music from the SoCal underground.
Raleigh doom/sludge duo CroMagnon wield low-tuned, prehistoric heaviness — primitive in tone but deliberate in execution, drawing on the slow-burn intensity of the Southern metal underground.
Lexington, Kentucky groove/sludge outfit Crone channel the Southern underground's taste for thick, swampy riffs and churning mid-tempo aggression into a hard-edged and visceral sound.
Minneapolis doom/drone/sludge band Crone build extended, suffocating soundscapes from the ground up, embracing the glacial pacing and tonal density of the heaviest strains of underground metal.
Manning, South Carolina death/doom/sludge outfit Crone Bog drag listeners through mire and rot, stacking funereal slow riffs with the decomposing murk of old-school death metal.
Heavy Sludge / Stoner Metal from Dallas.
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