sludge-doom

Swedish trio Firebreather announce their return with an incendiary new album due out in February 2022, and today share the first track. Listen to “Kiss of Your Blade” below.

YOB, “the Pacific Northwest trio able to swing effortlessly between menacing distortion and hushed reverie” (Associated Press), close out 2021 with the release of a remixed and remastered version of their stunning sixth album, “Atma”, and word of the trio’s first tour since 2019.

Exile On Mainstream presents “Haunted”, the second album from German doom/sludge metal quartet Confusion Master. Confirming the album for November release, the label has posted its cover art, track listing, a brief teaser, and other details.
 

After losing two editions of the festival due to Covid-19, Desertfest Berlin is going to strike back next year and just revealed the first 25 names for their eclectic line-up and 10th anniversary edition in 2022!

Italy’s Southern Metal act, JENA, has revealed new details about their upcoming, sophomore studio album, “Graboid”, which is slated for a release on December 3rd, 2021, via Argonauta Records.

For over fifteen years, New England’s When The Deadbolt Breaks has lurked in the dark corners of underground metal. With a doom style both psychedelic and unsettling, their music has been labeled many things - heavy, daunting, overwhelming, unnerving - while the band is singer/guitarist Aaron Lewis’ gritty vision of life on the subcultural fringes of New England society.

Bassist/vocalist Pia Isaksen from the Norwegian heavy psych and doom band Superlynx has launched her first solo affair entitled “PIA ISA”! Her debut album will be released in early 2022 through powerhouse label Argonauta Records.

Long-running Seattle post-hardcore/sludge unit Heiress - featuring current and former members of Himsa, Undertow, Blightmaker, and more - will unleash their long-awaited “Distant Fires” full-length on October 1st, 2021, via Satanik Royalty Records. The follow-up to the band’s 2016’s critically adored “Made Wrong” offering will serve as the label’s first official release!
 

Copenhagen’s LLNN will unleash their third full-length, “Unmaker”, via Pelagic Records on September 24th, 2021. A stupefyingly unforgiving affair, Unmaker is at once abrasive and vile, at times effervescent and escharotic, and finally absolutely smothering, suffocating, terminal.