Sludge
Track Premiere: Bongzilla – “Hippie Stick”
March 20, 2023 Brad Sanders
Hear Wisconsin sludge doom heroes Bongzilla return with their latest super joint ritual.
Track Premiere: Mammon’s Throne – “Beyond”
March 14, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear new single, “Beyond,” from Mammon’s Throne, gilded with crusty riffs and authentic Aussie spite.
Track Premiere: Cathari – ‘Beautiful Boy’
March 13, 2023 Emily Bellino
It’s all doom and gloom for Cathari.
Video Premiere: Night Goat – “Wendigo”
March 7, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
The manic, unhinged fury of Ohio’s Night Goat is unleashed in the band’s psychedelic new video for “Wendigo.”
Video Premiere: Treedeon – “Viking Meditation Song”
March 2, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Treedeon deliver a severely drop-tuned rumbler that hits somewhere between Bleach-era Nirvana and Sleep’s Holy Mountain
Festival Preview: Grim Reefer Fest
March 1, 2023 Sean Frasier
Achieve your higher form after inhaling our favorite tracks from Grim Reefer Fest’s stacked doom lineup. Baltimore gets vaporized on 4/29.
Video Premiere: Kill Me – “Bloodsluts”
February 28, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Watch the new video from Seattle noise/sludge duo Kill Me, because it’s called “Bloodsluts.”
Video Premiere: Radian – “They Look Like Good Strong Hands”
February 23, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Ohio sludge busters Radian light it up in new video for “They Look Like Strong Hands.”
Album Premiere: Merlock – ‘Onward Strides Colossus’
February 22, 2023 Sean Frasier
Spokane sludge rockers Merlock explore the shadows of psychedelia on their new LP, Onward Strides Colossus.
Video Premiere: The Human Race is Filth – ‘Cloaked in Shame’
February 13, 2023 Emily Bellino
Check out “Cloaked in Shame” from grind/sludge outfit The Human Race is Filth and hit Bandcamp to hear more from their Cognitive Dissonance EP.
Album Premiere: Raum Kingdom – ‘Monarch’
January 25, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Hear Irish sludge and doomsters Raum Kingdom return with their first new LP since the passing of bass player Ronan Connor in March of 2021.
Track Premiere: Stormo – ‘Endocannibalismo’
January 12, 2023 Emily Bellino
Listen to a new song from sludgy noise punks Stormo.
Full Album Premiere: Onhou – ‘Monument’
December 6, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Dutch sludge-doom quartet Onhou get low and slow on their second wretched full-length, ‘Monument.’
Track Premiere: Mammoth Caravan’s “Nomad”
November 29, 2022 Justin Norton
Newcomers Mammoth Caravan draw from the primordial well of southern sludge and doom metal but subtract meandering and nonsense.
Video Premiere: Gavran – “Pesak”
November 9, 2022 Sean Frasier
Dutch doom trio Gavran unveil their psychedelic new video for “Pesak.” Sophomore album Indistinct Beacon out December 2nd.
Video Premiere: S.I.D. – ‘City of Chemistry’
September 21, 2022 Sean Frasier
Italian doom/sludge trio S.I.D. declare war on warfare with the music video for their EP’s title track, “City of Chemistry.”
Track Premiere: Black Royal – ’13th Moon’
August 22, 2022 Emily Bellino
Dig into sludgy stoner grooves with Black Royal.
Full Album Stream: Abest – ‘Molten Husk’
August 18, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
German hardcore sludge trio Abest‘s latest LP will leave you a Molten Husk. Stream it in full now!
Album Premiere: Morbid Evils – ‘Supernaturals’
August 17, 2022 Sean Frasier
Keijo Niinimaa (Rotten Sound) returns with a merciless new album from Finnish funeral sludge project Morbid Evils.
Track Premiere: Calm Collapse – “Positive Greed”
August 16, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
New Seattle post-metal sludge trio Calm Collapse are no negative creeps.
Video Premiere: Signo Rojo – “Enough Rope”
July 28, 2022 Sean Frasier
Swedish sludge rockers Signo Rojo unveil the video for “Enough Rope,” the first single from their upcoming Majestic Mountain Records release.
Full Album Stream: Behold! The Monolith – ‘From the Fathomless Deep’
July 14, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Hear L.A. doom trio Behold! The Monolith get deep on their new Ripple Music full-length.
Video Premiere: Process of Guilt – “Victims”
July 5, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Noisy Portuguese quartet Process of Guilt ratchet up the tension in new video for “Victims”
Album Premiere: Existence Dysphoria – ‘Minus Negative’
June 29, 2022 Sean Frasier
London sludge trio Existence Dysphoria unveil their crushing debut album Minus Negative. Out July 1st through Sludgelord Records.
Track Premiere: Sergeant Thunderhoof – “Devil’s Daughter”
May 31, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Report immediately to desert rockers Sergeant Thunderhoof, who hail from the sand-swept, dune-laden [checks notes] Bath, England.
Video Premiere: Hush – “There Can Be No Forgiveness Without the Shedding of Blood”
May 19, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Hush‘s noisy, sludgy post-metal horror-show provides the appropriate soundtrack for the bleakness of their new video
Album Premiere: MNRVA – ‘Hollow’
May 18, 2022 Sean Frasier
South Carolina sludge trio MNRVA summon black skies with their doomy debut LP, Hollow. Live deliciously and listen early.
Full Album Premiere: Bog Body – ‘Cryonic Crevasse Cult’
May 17, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
NYC’s Bog Body emerge well-preserved from the sludgy black metal morass.
Demo:listen: Nembutal Sleep
May 17, 2022 Dutch Pearce
This week Demo:listen gets knocked out by Swedish sludge/hardcore punk duo Nembutal Sleep.
Track Premiere: Still/Form – “Loyal, Like Dogs”
May 5, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Portland noiseniks Still/Form are all bark and all bite on their debut offering