List of sludge metal bands
This is a list of bands that play sludge metal, or sludge, a genre of heavy metal music that originated through combining elements of doom metal and hardcore punk.
List of artists[]
North-western sludge[]
Southern sludge[]
These bands are the pioneers of the genre or are strongly influenced by those bands. Nearly all are from the Southern United States.
- 16
- Acid Bath[3]
- Buzzoven[4]
- Cavity
- Corrosion of Conformity[5]
- Crowbar
- Down[5]
- Eyehategod
- Graves at Sea[6]
- Harvey Milk[7]
- Iron Monkey[8]
- Once Nothing
- Superjoint Ritual[5]
- Trenches
Stoner sludge[]
These bands have mixed typical stoner rock traits with typical sludge metal traits, and may be considered a part of both genres.
- Bongzilla[9]
- Electric Wizard[10]
- High on Fire[11][12]
- Kylesa[13]
- Mico de Noche[14][15]
- Red Fang[16]
- Torche[17]
- Weedeater[18]
Other fusions with sludge metal[]
- Agrimonia (sludge metal, crust punk and post-metal)[19]
- Alice in Chains (sludge metal, grunge and alternative metal)[20][21][22][23][24][25]
- Baroness (sludge metal and progressive metal)[26][27]
- Black Label Society (sludge metal, hard rock and Southern rock)[28]
- Black Tusk (sludge metal, hardcore punk and stoner rock)[29][30]
- Boris (sludge metal and drone metal)[31]
- Cancer Bats (sludge metal, hardcore punk and Southern rock)[32][33][34]
- Circle Takes the Square (sludge metal, screamo and post-hardcore)[35]
- Converge (sludge metal, metalcore, hardcore punk) [36]
- Corrosion of Conformity (hardcore punk, crossover, sludge metal, Southern rock)
- Cult of Luna (sludge metal, progressive metal and post-metal)
- Dumb Numbers (sludge, doom, noise rock and "swooning feedback pop")[37][38]
- Dystopia (sludge metal and crust punk)
- Fudge Tunnel (sludge metal, noise rock and alternative metal)[39]
- Greif (sludge metal, doom metal, death metal)
- Helms Alee (sludge metal and shoegaze)[40][41]
- Isis (sludge metal and post-rock)[42]
- KEN Mode (sludge metal, noise rock and post-hardcore)[43][44]
- Kingdom of Sorrow (sludge metal and metalcore)[45]
- Lair of the Minotaur (sludge metal and thrash metal)[46]
- Mastodon (sludge metal, progressive metal, stoner rock, and alternative metal)[47]
- Mistress (sludge metal and death metal)[48]
- Neurosis (sludge metal and post-metal)[49]
- Nights Like These (sludge metal and deathcore)
- Nirvana (sludge metal, punk rock, indie rock and pop)[50][51][52]
- The Ocean (sludge metal, progressive metal and post-metal)[53]
- Part Chimp (sludge metal and noise rock)[54]
- Raw Radar War (sludge metal and crust punk)[55]
- Slugdge (Blackened death metal, progressive metal, and sludge metal)
- Sofa King Killer (sludge metal, doom metal, rock and roll, and punk rock)[citation needed]
- Soilent Green (sludge metal and grindcore)[56][57][58]
- Soundgarden (sludge metal and alternative rock)[59]
- Sumac (sludge metal and post-metal)[60]
- Totimoshi (sludge metal and alternative rock)[61][62]
- Weekend Nachos (sludge metal and powerviolence)
- Will Haven (sludge metal and alternative metal)[63]
- Whores (sludge metal and noise rock)[64]
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