List of sludge metal bands
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[edit]
Band | Formed | Origin | Notes |
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16[1] | 1992 | United States | |
Acid Bath[2] | 1991 | United States | |
Agrimonia[3] | 2005 | Sweden | Also classed as crust punk and post-metal.[3] |
Alice in Chains[4][5] | 1987 | United States | Also classed as grunge,[6] alternative metal,[7] alternative rock,[8] and doom metal.[9] |
Baroness[10] | 2003 | United States | Also classed as progressive metal[11] and stoner metal.[10] |
Big Business[12] | 2004 | United States | Also classed as stoner metal.[13] |
Bison B.C.[14] | 2006 | Canada | Also classed as stoner metal[15] and doom metal.[16] |
Black Tusk[17] | 2005 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal[18][19] and hardcore punk.[19] |
Blood Circus[20] | 1988 | United States | |
Bongzilla[21] | 1995 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal. |
Boris[22] | 1992 | Japan | Also classed as experimental metal[23] and drone metal.[22] |
Burning Witch[24] | 1995 | United States | Also classed as doom metal[24] and stoner doom.[24] |
Buzzoven[25] | 1990 | United States | |
Cavity[26] | 1992 | United States | |
Celeste[27] | 2005 | France | Also classed as post-hardcore and black metal.[27] |
Conan[28] | 2006 | United Kingdom | Also classed as doom metal.[28] |
Corrosion of Conformity[29] | 1982 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal[30] and southern metal.[31] |
Corrupted[32] | 1994 | Japan | Also classed as doom metal and drone metal. |
Crowbar[33] | 1990 | United States | |
Cult of Luna[34] | 1998 | Sweden | Also classed as post-metal[35] and doom metal.[35] |
Down[29] | 1991 | United States | Also classed as southern metal[31] and stoner metal.[36] |
Dystopia[37] | 1991 | United States | Also classed as crust punk.[37] |
Eyehategod[38] | 1988 | United States | |
Fudge Tunnel[39] | 1988 | United Kingdom | Also classed as noise rock[39] and alternative metal.[40] |
Gaza[41] | 2004 | United States | Also classed as mathcore[42] and grindcore.[41] |
Godflesh[43] | 1988 | United Kingdom | Also classed as industrial metal[44] and experimental metal.[45] |
Graves at Sea[46] | 2002 | United States | Also classed as doom metal.[47] |
Grief[48] | 1991 | United States | |
Harkonen[49][50] | 1997 | United States | Also classed as post-hardcore[51] and math rock.[49] |
Harvey Milk[52] | 1992 | United States | |
Helms Alee[53] | 2007 | United States | Also classed as post-hardcore,[54] noise rock,[53] shoegaze,[53] and stoner metal.[53] |
High on Fire[55] | 1998 | United States | Also classed as stoner metal,[56] doom metal,[57] and thrash metal.[58] |
Isis[59] | 1997 | United States | Also classed as post-metal.[60] |
Iron Monkey[61] | 1994 | United Kingdom | |
Keelhaul[62] | 1997 | United States | Also classed as mathcore[63] and post-hardcore.[64] |
KEN Mode[65] | 1999 | Canada | Also classed as noise rock[66] and post-hardcore.[67] |
Kingdom of Sorrow[68] | 2005 | United States | Also classed as metalcore. |
Knut[69] | 1994 | Switzerland | Also classed as mathcore.[70] |
Kylesa[71] | 2001 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal.[71] |
Lody Kong[72] | 2011 | United States | Also classed as hardcore punk, grunge and thrash metal. |
Lair of the Minotaur[73] | 2003 | United States | Also classed as thrash metal.[74] |
Mantar[75] | 2012 | Germany | |
Mastodon[76] | 2000 | United States | Also classed as progressive metal[77] and stoner metal.[78] |
Melvins[79] | 1983 | United States | Also classed as alternative rock,[80] experimental rock,[81] grunge,[82] noise rock,[83] and stoner rock.[84] |
Mico de Noche[85] | 2001 | United States | Also classed as stoner metal.[86] |
Mistress[87] | 1999 | United Kingdom | Also classed as grindcore and death metal.[87][88] |
Neurosis[89] | 1985 | United States | Also classed as post-metal.[89] |
Nightstick[90] | 1992 | United States | Also classed as noise rock and acid rock.[90] |
The Ocean[91] | 2000 | Germany | Also classed as progressive metal, post-metal, and experimental metal.[92] |
Part Chimp[93] | 2000 | United Kingdom | Also classed as noise rock.[93] |
Raw Radar War[94] | 2002 | United States | Also classed as hardcore punk and crust punk.[94] |
Red Fang[95] | 2005 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal. |
Sofa King Killer[96] | 1999 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal. |
Soilent Green[97] | 1988 | United States | Also classed as grindcore.[98] |
Sourvein[99] | 1993 | United States | Also classed as doom metal.[100] |
Stake[101] | 2004 | Belgium | Also classed as post-rock/metal. |
Sumac[102] | 2014 | Canada / United States | Also classed as post-metal. |
Superjoint Ritual[103][104] | 1993 | United States | Also classed as hardcore punk.[104] |
Thou[105] | 2005 | United States | |
Torche[106] | 2004 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal[106] and alternative rock.[107] |
Totimoshi[108] | 1999 | United States | Also classed as noise rock,[109] alternative rock,[110] stoner rock/metal,[111] and alternative metal.[112] |
Trenches[113] | 2007 | United States | Also classed as metalcore.[113] |
Vorvaň[114] | 2009 | Russia | Also classed as hardcore punk.[114] |
Weedeater[115] | 1998 | United States | Also classed as stoner metal. |
Whores[116] | 2010 | United States | Also classed as noise rock.[116] |
Willard[117] | 1989 | United States | Also classed as grunge, doom metal, and alternative metal. |
Will Haven[118] | 1995 | United States | Also classed as metalcore,[119] post-hardcore,[120] and alternative metal.[118] |
Year of No Light[121] | 2001 | France | Also classed as post-metal[122] and post-rock.[123] |
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