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Chicago's Edgar Allan Ectoplasm have one of heavy music's better names, and they back it up with a lurching, fog-thick blend of doom, stoner, and sludge metal that evokes humid dread — active since 2013.
Champaign, Illinois is not a city anyone expects to produce sludge, but Edna — with that deceptively unassuming name — has been dragging down midwestern tempos with thick, fuzz-drenched stoner weight since 2017.
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Active off and on since 1999. One of Austin's earlier sludge/stoner acts, predating much of the city's current heavy scene.
Austin's Egypt trades in sludge and stoner metal with a Texas-sized thickness, formed in 2009 in a city whose creative underground has always made room for bands willing to slow down and get filthy.
Portland's Eight Bells weave progressive, doom, and sludge into something genuinely graceful — feminine vocals over cavernous weight, a combination that has made them one of the more distinctive acts in the Pacific Northwest's metal underground since 2013.
Ventura, California's El Barbaro occupies the brutal intersection of doom, sludge, and hardcore, a combination the band has been weaponizing since 2012. Crushing tempos and hardcore aggression collide with the genre's suffocating low-end weight.
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania's Electric Horsemen have been plowing through doom and sludge since 2006, their sound built on crushing, slow-motion riffs and the kind of rural grimness that comes from years in the underground.
Portland's Elitist refuse to stay in one lane — their sound drags sludge's suffocating weight through grindcore velocity and crust punk fury, occasionally dropping into straight death metal savagery without warning.
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