Sludge

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”

New York doom metal dirgists Inherus arrive with the power of a seasonal change. Listen to their stirring debut Beholden now.

Because EPs, splits and demos are cumbersome, Come to Grief made it easy for us all and compiled it into Killed By Life, a new definitive document of their output prior to the first album.

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

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

It’s all doom and gloom for Cathari.

The manic, unhinged fury of Ohio’s Night Goat is unleashed in the band’s psychedelic new video for “Wendigo.”

Hear Treedeon deliver a severely drop-tuned rumbler that hits somewhere between Bleach-era Nirvana and Sleep’s Holy Mountain

Achieve your higher form after inhaling our favorite tracks from Grim Reefer Fest’s stacked doom lineup. Baltimore gets vaporized on 4/29.

Watch the new video from Seattle noise/sludge duo Kill Me, because it’s called “Bloodsluts.”

Ohio sludge busters Radian light it up in new video for “They Look Like Strong Hands.”

Spokane sludge rockers Merlock explore the shadows of psychedelia on their new LP, Onward Strides Colossus.

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.

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.

Listen to a new song from sludgy noise punks Stormo.

Hear Dutch sludge-doom quartet Onhou get low and slow on their second wretched full-length, ‘Monument.’