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Sludge metal (also known as sludge doom or simply sludge) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that combines elements of doom metal and hardcore punk. The genre generally includes slow tempos, tuned down guitars and nihilistic lyrics discussing poverty, drug addiction and pollution.
- Acid Bath
Acid Bath was an American sludge metal band from Houma,...
- Grief
Grief was an American sludge metal band based in Boston,...
- List of sludge metal bands
This is a list of bands that play sludge metal, or sludge, a...
- Acid Bath
Sludge metal (also known as sludge doom) is a style that combines doom metal and hardcore punk. Many sludge bands compose slow and heavy songs that contain brief hardcore passages. However, some bands emphasise fast tempos throughout their music.
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- Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments (1987) Melvins' 1987 debut Gluey Porch Treatments is as much a blueprint for the wretched trudge of sludge as it is for the primordial stages of grunge, both genres taking cues from the Washington band's penchant for agonisingly drawn-out riffs and squalling feedback.
- Eyehategod - Take As Needed For Pain (1993) The swamps of Louisiana were teeming with sludge bands at the start of the 90s, the likes of Eyehategod, Crowbar and Acid Bath all helping define the nascent genre and giving rise to later groups like Down, but few bands came as crusty or more filth-flecked than Eyehategod.
- Iron Monkey - Our Problem (1998) The US might have cornered the market on sludge, but they didn't hold an entire monopoly. In the UK's East Midlands, Fudge Tunnel would pick up the baton from Melvins and fuse noise rock and sludge, but it was contemporaries Iron Monkey that best came to define British sludge, their 1998 release Our Problem issuing howls from the bowels of hell while bringing back some of the Sabbath groove, leaving an indelible mark that affected generations of subsequent sludge-spattered groups from Raging Speedhorn to Hang The Bastard.
- Mastodon - Leviathan (2004) Even as early as their 2002 debut Remission, Mastodon were pushing the boundaries of sludge, bringing a sense of melodicism and prog-styled riffing that would open new instrumental in-roads for everyone from Baroness to Boss Keloid and Conjurer.
Sludge metal (also known as sludge or sludge doom) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that originated through combining elements of doom metal and hardcore punk. It is typically harsh and abrasive, often featuring shouted vocals, heavily distorted instruments and sharply contrasting tempos.
Jul 6, 2020 · Metal Hammer. The 10 essential sludge metal albums. By Chris Chantler. ( Metal Hammer ) last updated 6 July 2020. Dark, brutal and magnificently ugly, these are the sludge albums you need in your life. Spawned from a messy collision of Black Sabbath ’s downcast metal, Black Flag’s tortured hardcore and the sub/dom grind of early Swans ...
Active. Formed in: 1994. Genre: Doom/Death Metal (early); Death/Black Metal/Post-Metal (later) Themes: Death, Evil, Violence, Rebellion, Anti-religion. Current label: Mighty Music.
