Sludge

Track Premiere: Bongzilla – “Hippie Stick”

March 20, 2023

Hear Wisconsin sludge doom heroes Bongzilla return with their latest super joint ritual.

Track Premiere: Mammon’s Throne – “Beyond”

March 14, 2023

Hear new single, “Beyond,” from Mammon’s Throne, gilded with crusty riffs and authentic Aussie spite.

Video Premiere: Night Goat – “Wendigo”

March 7, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Listen to a new song from sludgy noise punks Stormo.

Full Album Premiere: Onhou – ‘Monument’

December 6, 2022

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

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

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

Italian doom/sludge trio S.I.D. declare war on warfare with the music video for their EP’s title track, “City of Chemistry.”

Full Album Stream: Abest – ‘Molten Husk’

August 18, 2022

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

Keijo Niinimaa (Rotten Sound) returns with a merciless new album from Finnish funeral sludge project Morbid Evils.

Video Premiere: Signo Rojo – “Enough Rope”

July 28, 2022

Swedish sludge rockers Signo Rojo unveil the video for “Enough Rope,” the first single from their upcoming Majestic Mountain Records release.

Video Premiere: Process of Guilt – “Victims”

July 5, 2022

Noisy Portuguese quartet Process of Guilt ratchet up the tension in new video for “Victims”

Album Premiere: Existence Dysphoria – ‘Minus Negative’

June 29, 2022

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

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

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

South Carolina sludge trio MNRVA summon black skies with their doomy debut LP, Hollow. Live deliciously and listen early.

Demo:listen: Nembutal Sleep

May 17, 2022

This week Demo:listen gets knocked out by Swedish sludge/hardcore punk duo Nembutal Sleep.