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Dark Angel (2025)
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Abstracted Mind (2018)
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psychic behaviors (2021)
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Filthy Sludge Metal out of Texas.
Crushing Sludge Metal out of Texas.
Heavy Sludge / Death Metal / Hardcore out of Texas.
Massive Sludge / Groove Metal from Austin.
Dallas blackened doom/sludge. Crushing, atmospheric heaviness.
Southern Decay is a sludge metal band from San Antonio, Texas, formed in 2023, channeling the slow corrosive weight of Southern sludge into the fertile Texas heavy music scene.
San Antonio, Texas stoner and sludge metal band Spunkous formed in 2023, fusing the hazy, heavy grooves of stoner metal with the abrasive weight of sludge within San Antonio's active underground scene.
San Antonio sludge metal band formed in 2022, built around suffocating low-end and caustic noise in the tradition of Texas heavy underground acts with an uncompromising approach to filth-drenched heaviness.
Houston power trio delivering Sabbath-style doom and savage sludge. Signed to Ripple Music.
Denton, Texas sludge and doom metal band formed in 2017, producing slow, heavy music that channels the oppressive atmospherics of doom alongside the abrasive, punk-inflected edge of sludge metal.
Houston sludge, doom, and post-metal band formed in 2017, weaving the heaviness of sludge with the expansive, introspective textures of post-metal into a brooding and cinematic sound.
Crushing Sludge Metal from Fort Worth.
Suffocating Psychedelic Doom / Sludge Metal from Austin.
Crushing Sludge / Stoner Metal / Rock from Corpus Christi.
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