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

Band Formed Origin Notes
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]
Amenra[10] 1999 Belgium Also classed as post-metal.
Baroness[11] 2003 United States Also classed as progressive metal[12] and stoner metal.[11]
Big Business[13] 2004 United States Also classed as stoner metal.[14]
Bison B.C.[15] 2006 Canada Also classed as stoner metal[16] and doom metal.[17]
Black Tusk[18] 2005 United States Also classed as stoner rock/metal[19][20] and hardcore punk.[20]
Blood Circus[21] 1988 United States
Body Void[22] 2014 United States Also classed as doom metal.[22]
Bongzilla[23] 1995 United States Also classed as stoner rock/metal.
Boris[24] 1992 Japan Also classed as experimental metal[25] and drone metal.[24]
Burning Witch[26] 1995 United States Also classed as doom metal[26] and stoner doom.[26]
Buzzoven[27] 1990 United States
Cavity[28] 1992 United States
Celeste[29] 2005 France Also classed as post-hardcore and black metal.[29]
Chat Pile[30] 2019 United States Also classed as noise rock.[31]
Conan[32] 2006 United Kingdom Also classed as doom metal.[32]
Conjurer[33] 2014 United Kingdom Also classed as post-metal[34] and doom metal.[35]
Corrosion of Conformity[36] 1982 United States Also classed as stoner rock/metal[37] and southern metal.[38]
Corrupted[39] 1994 Japan Also classed as doom metal and drone metal.
Crowbar[40] 1990 United States
Cult of Luna[41] 1998 Sweden Also classed as post-metal[42] and doom metal.[42]
Cultura Tres[43][44] 2006 Venezuela Also classed as doom metal[45] and groove metal.[46]
Down[36] 1991 United States Also classed as southern metal[38] and stoner metal.[47]
Downthesun[48] 1999 United States Also classed as nu metal[49] and alternative metal.[50]
Dragpipe[51] 2001 United States Also classed as alternative metal,[52] nu metal,[53] and stoner rock.[51]
DVNE[54] 2013 United Kingdom Also classed as post-metal and progressive metal [55] .
Dystopia[56] 1991 United States Also classed as crust punk.[56]
Eyehategod[57] 1988 United States
Fudge Tunnel[58] 1988 United Kingdom Also classed as noise rock[58] and alternative metal.[59]
Gaza[60] 2004 United States Also classed as mathcore[61] and grindcore.[60]
Godflesh[62] 1988 United Kingdom Also classed as industrial metal[63] and experimental metal.[64]
Graves at Sea[65] 2002 United States Also classed as doom metal.[66]
Greenmachine[67] 1995 Japan Also classed as stoner metal.[68]
Grief[69] 1991 United States
Harkonen[70][71] 1997 United States Also classed as post-hardcore[72] and math rock.[70]
Harvey Milk[73] 1992 United States
Helms Alee[74] 2007 United States Also classed as post-hardcore,[75] noise rock,[74] shoegaze,[74] and stoner metal.[74]
High on Fire[76] 1998 United States Also classed as stoner metal,[77] doom metal,[78] and thrash metal.[79]
Isis[80] 1997 United States Also classed as post-metal.[81]
Iron Monkey[82] 1994 United Kingdom
Jucifer[83] 1993 United States Also classed as noise rock.[84]
Keelhaul[85] 1997 United States Also classed as mathcore[86] and post-hardcore.[87]
KEN Mode[88] 1999 Canada Also classed as noise rock[89] and post-hardcore.[90]
Kingdom of Sorrow[91] 2005 United States Also classed as metalcore.
Knut[92] 1994 Switzerland Also classed as mathcore.[93]
Kylesa[94] 2001 United States Also classed as stoner rock/metal.[94]
Lody Kong[95] 2011 United States Also classed as hardcore punk, grunge and thrash metal.
Lair of the Minotaur[96] 2003 United States Also classed as thrash metal.[97]
Mantar[98] 2012 Germany
Mastodon[99] 2000 United States Also classed as progressive metal[100] and stoner metal.[101]
Melvins[102] 1983 United States Also classed as alternative rock,[103] experimental rock,[104] grunge,[105] noise rock,[106] and stoner rock.[107]
Mico de Noche[108] 2001 United States Also classed as stoner metal.[109]
Minsk[110][111] 2002 United States Also classed as post-metal[112] and doom metal.[112]
Mistress[113] 1999 United Kingdom Also classed as grindcore and death metal.[113][114]
Neurosis[115] 1985 United States Also classed as post-metal.[115]
Nightstick[116] 1992 United States Also classed as noise rock and acid rock.[116]
Nirvana[117] 1987 United States The band’s earliest work, Bleach is described as sludge metal.[117][118] Generally described as grunge and alternative rock.
Norma Jean[119] 1997 United States Also classed as mathcore,[120] metalcore,[121] post-hardcore,[122] and nu metal (early, as Luti-Kriss).[123]
The Ocean[124] 2000 Germany Also classed as progressive metal, post-metal, and experimental metal.[125]
Old Man Gloom[126] 1999 United States Also classed as post-metal.[127]
Part Chimp[128] 2000 United Kingdom Also classed as noise rock.[128]
Raging Speedhorn[129] 1998 United Kingdom Also classed as extreme metal,[130] hardcore punk,[131] stoner metal,[132] and nu metal (early).[133]
Raw Radar War[134] 2002 United States Also classed as hardcore punk and crust punk.[134]
Red Fang[135] 2005 United States Also classed as stoner rock/metal.
Sofa King Killer[136] 1999 United States Also classed as stoner rock/metal.
Shallow North Dakota[137] 1993 Canada Also classed as noise rock.[138]
Soilent Green[139] 1988 United States Also classed as grindcore.[140]
Sourvein[141] 1993 United States Also classed as doom metal.[142]
Stake[143] 2004 Belgium Also classed as post-rock/metal.[144][145]
Sumac[146] 2014 Canada / United States Also classed as post-metal.
Sunrot[147] 2013 United States Also classed as doom metal.
Superjoint Ritual[148][149] 1993 United States Also classed as hardcore punk.[149]
Thou[150] 2005 United States
Torche[151] 2004 United States Also classed as stoner rock/metal[151] and alternative rock.[152]
Totimoshi[153] 1999 United States Also classed as noise rock,[154] alternative rock,[155] stoner rock/metal,[156] and alternative metal.[157]
Trenches[158] 2007 United States Also classed as metalcore.[158]
Twitching Tongues[159] 2009 United States Also classed as groove metal[160] and metalcore.[161]
Unpersons[162] 1997 United States Also classed as hardcore,[162] stoner rock/metal,[162] doom metal,[162] and noise rock.[163]
Vorvaň[164] 2009 Russia Also classed as hardcore punk.[164]
Weedeater[165] 1998 United States Also classed as stoner metal.
Whores[166] 2010 United States Also classed as noise rock.[166]
Willard[167] 1989 United States Also classed as grunge, doom metal, and alternative metal.
Will Haven[168] 1995 United States Also classed as metalcore,[169] post-hardcore,[170] and alternative metal.[168]
Year of No Light[171] 2001 France Also classed as post-metal[172] and post-rock.[173]
Zozobra[126] 2006 United States Also classed as post-metal.

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