Sludge

New Jersey’s own Sunrot have teamed up with New England bruisers Body Void to release a special split EP for 2024’s Trans Day of Remembrance on November 20.

Stream Arkansas sludge/doom crushers Mammoth Caravan‘s new LP Frostbitten Galaxy before it’s out via Blade Setter on October 4.

Ohio post-metal shoegazers, Flourish, get all cosmic on sludgy new single.

Hamilton, Ontario’s death/doom outfit Absorb on death, doom and promise of new material so soon after the release of their crushing new EP, Smog.

Spend 10 minutes with Australian grind/noise force Diploid. And then spend the next hour catching your breath.

Generation of Vipers are back with their first new music in a decade. Dig in to first single “Lux Inversion” now.

Beauty is more than pixel-deep for the guitarist and now-official games composer.

Intense storytelling, technical prowess, and sheer energy are the hallmarks of Horseburner. Hear the sludge, doom and progressive metal of Voice of Storms.

Get sick and enjoy some righteous noise from Austria’s Desolat with an exclusive full stream of their new album.

Philly-area punks L.M.I. get noisy and heavy on “Dead Channel Thirst.”

Philly noisecore outfit Cathari celebrate the pain of living with the first track from their new EP.

Seattle-based doom lords To End It All are back with a new album, Of Blood and Memory out tomorrow (April 19), but you can hear it and get super sad with us now.

Sink into misery with Nest, featuring Agoraphobic Nosebleed’s John Jarvis.

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions present Destiny, the wrestling themed debut album from Memphis, Tennessee’s ultraviolent sludge metal sadists Mudshow.

We caught up with Lord Dying guitarist/vocalist Erik Olson to discuss the sludgemongers’ continued legacy via new LP Clandestine Transcendence.

Lair of the Minotaur‘s classic lineup got back together to track two new songs—hear the first one now.

NYC doom sect GUHTS sound darker than ever on their powerful debut LP from Seeing Red Records and New Heavy Sounds, “Regeneration.”

Hear the title track from progressive sludge outfit Lord Dying‘s new album, Clandestine Transcendence.

Rust Belt deathcore trio Give Me the Grave bring the grime while smashing the sarcophagus on their debut EP, Mind in Decay.

Hear grunge-positive Norwegian noise rock duo Barren Womb offer up a punchy new single, “Squat Walker.”

Hear the gut-churning sludge and misery of new Chicago duo Stomach.

Irish doom mainstays Slomatics build their 8th LP from crushing riffs, cosmic psych and space dust. Strontium Fields comes out September 8th from Black Bow Records.

Hear the disaffected and soulless industrial sludge of Tucson quartet Realize on their new single, “Nature Bot.”

Philadelphia sludge eulogists Quiet Man smash silence with a track-by-track guide to their dark new record, The Starving Lesson.

Hear Swiss black metal mavens Rorcal rise ’n’ slay on their new single, “Early Mourning.”

Pennsylvanian sludge trio Boozewa take flight with their fuzzy new single, “Maybe I’m a Bird.” Featuring members of Backwoods Payback.

Hear Indigenous metallers Medicine Horse shed light on the struggles of Cherokee Nation via some of the grooviest riffs on the planet.

The Mound Builders and Lucifist team up for the cassette-only split EP, A Mound of Fists. Listen to an exclusive track from each band.

Turn back the clock to the late ’90s/early ’00s with the metallic hardcore and epic bright-eyed sludge of eastern Canada’s Orchid’s Curse.

Hear Norfolk, Virginia punkers Demons expel their… well, you know on new track “Sweet Dreams”