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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Three Sides of One (2022)
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Soulpreacher is a sludge and doom metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina, active since 2000. One of the longer-running acts in the Southeast's heavy underground, they deliver lumbering, blues-infused heaviness characteristic of Southern sludge.
Sourvein is a veteran sludge/doom metal band from Wilmington, North Carolina, whose catalog of oppressive, swamp-soaked heaviness has made them a long-standing fixture of the Southern sludge underground since the early 2000s.
South Gate is a sludge metal band from Flat Rock, Michigan, formed in 2017, delivering slow-grinding, feedback-heavy heaviness rooted in the thick, abrasive textures at the core of the sludge metal tradition.
Southern Decay is a sludge metal band from San Antonio, Texas, formed in 2023, channeling the slow corrosive weight of Southern sludge into the fertile Texas heavy music scene.
Sowbelly is a sludge/doom metal band from Durand, Michigan, active since 2009. They deal in slow, heavy riffs and oppressive atmosphere rooted firmly in the American sludge tradition.
Space Cadaver is a psychedelic sludge metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, formed in 2017. They channel the city's tradition of swampy, heavy music through hallucinogenic sludge riffs and a warped cosmic aesthetic.
Space Lord is a sludge/stoner/doom metal trio from Kenilworth, New Jersey, formed in 2017, stacking massive fuzzed-out riffs across the heavy spectrum from swampy sludge to slow, weed-charred doom.
Space Weed are a stoner/sludge metal band from Cape Canaveral, Florida, formed in 2021. Their name and location lean into the cosmic joke of launching heavy, slow-burning riffs from the shadow of NASA's launch facilities on the Space Coast.
Spacebeast is a sludge/stoner metal band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2015. They combine the slow, grinding heaviness of sludge with the lysergic haze of stoner metal, fitting naturally into Portland's well-established heavy underground.
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