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- Eyehategod – Take As Needed For Pain (1993) Asking how important New Orleans’ Eyehategod are to the sludge genre is like asking if Slayer were pivotal to the rise of thrash, or wondering if Cannibal Corpse played much of a part in defining death metal.
- Iron Monkey – Our Problem (1998) When talking about sludge, to omit Iron Monkey’s name would be borderline blasphemous, and utterly stupid, given that they are the best such band that the UK have ever had.
- High On Fire – The Art Of Self-Defense (2000) While Oakland’s High On Fire have arguably dropped better records, their sludgiest moment came at the start, with their debut full-length.
- Crowbar – Odd Fellows Rest (1998) Another integral band spawned in N’awlins, Crowbar make it hard to single out their finest album. Maybe it’s ’93’s self-titled release?
- Melvins – Gluey Porch Treatments. Melvins had a profound effect on the emerging grunge scene, frontman Buzz Osbourne waggishly noting of Kurt Cobain “If it hadn’t been for us, he’d still be that little Led Zeppelin stoner.”
- Eyehategod - Take As Needed For Pain. The New Orleans institution hit their stride and raised the bar with 1993’s punishing second album, powerfully affirming the emergent underdog genre’s key sonic facets - wanton squalls of feedback, blackened blues riffing, nauseous lurches of tempo and Mike Williams’ broken glass gargle - against a backdrop of true-life squalour and struggle.
- Grief - Come To Grief. I Hate You, Hate Grows Stonger, Ruined, Fed Up, Stricken, World Of Hurt: the titles say it all. These Boston mood-stranglers operated up a similar alley to Eyehategod, but with any remaining groove, swing and vivacity removed and inhumanely destroyed with anguished guitar tones and Jeff Hayward’s disaffected bellow.
- Down - NOLA. Buddies from Pantera, Crowbar, Eyehategod and COC were jamming old-school doom riffs for fun from 1991, passing around mysterious demo tapes until Elektra signed them up for this righteous debut.
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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.
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This is a list of bands that play sludge metal, or sludge, a genre of extreme music that originated through combining elements of doom metal and hardcore punk. List of artists
