Sludge

Sludge metal generally combines the slow tempos, heavy rhythms and dark, pessimistic atmosphere of doom metal with the aggression, shouted vocals and occasional fast tempos of hardcore punk. As The New York Times put it, “The shorthand term for the kind of rock descending from early Black Sabbath and late Black Flag is sludge, because it’s so slow and dense”. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: 16

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YOB Saturday 11 February 2012	Beauty Ballroom Austin TX, United States	Add shout
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The Their Strings Are Voices Tour 2012 Scale The Summit, Elitist Sunday 12 February 2012	The Lost Horizon Syracuse, United States 43.054354 -76.082324	2 going Add shout
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Scale The Summit Scale The Summit, Elitist Monday 13 February 2012	T.T. the Bear's Place Cambridge, Boston MA, United States 42.363698 -71.101641	3 going Add shout
Tuesday 14 February 2012
YOB Black Cobra, Walken Tuesday 14 February 2012	The New Parish Oakland, San Francisco, United States 37.807775 -122.272736	12 going 2 shouts
Wednesday 15 February 2012
Jucifer Wednesday 15 February 2012	Siberia New Orleans, United States 29.969009 -90.055918	Add shout
The Their Strings Are Voices Tour 2012 Scale The Summit, Elitist Wednesday 15 February 2012	The Barbary Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia, United States 39.965573 -75.134131	2 going Add shout

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Metal_Ganon wrote:
last week

Too much sludge-lite on the top artists (some, such as Baroness, have long ditched any trace of sludge in their sound0.

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bal-on wrote:
last week

Dopethrone is all i need.

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Lok-DoK wrote:
last week

ПОЧТИ СПЛОШНАЯ ЕБАНЬ БЛЯТЬ ОБТЕГАНА

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sub-v-Ruiner wrote:
December 2011

блять любитель только сладже исполнителях.

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Porpse wrote:
December 2011

Что любитель пилота может знать о сладже лол.

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cristymelan101 wrote:
December 2011

xmas

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vitalfml wrote:
December 2011

блять на Amenra хочу[3] только живу не в столицах.[2]

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JoeyPerrotta1 wrote:
December 2011

Fleshpress, Eyehategod, and Melvins are win.

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Lanny_Barbi wrote:
December 2011

блять на Amenra хочу[2] только живу не в столицах.

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vitalfml wrote:
December 2011

блять на Amenra хочу

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FIN-V wrote:
November 2011

Today everything is sludge.

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cuber3 wrote:
November 2011

Sorry for another one of those "why is band x tagged with tag y" posts, but goddamn, Jesu is about as far removed from sludge as you can get.

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Lanny_Barbi wrote:
November 2011

почти под любым тегом такая хуита творится. меня Mastodon здесь убивает просто.

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Dismecuter wrote:
November 2011

Пиздец, почему в лучших исполнителях почти сплошной потсмитал? Что за кретины так тегают?

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HyRRa wrote:
October 2011

Moody and melodic metal with a progressive flow and harsh vocals. Melancholy with cutting edge - Nodding Sky from Finland: http://www.last.fm/music/Nodding+Sky - Check us out

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phoenixsinger93 wrote:
October 2011

I wanna start a sludge band, but I don't have a camera that can take black and white pictures. I'm a failure...

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mason1729 wrote:
October 2011

While I do like the atmospheric stuff (Isis, Neurosis, CoL, etc) in the top artists, they aren't exactly sludge in the purest sense.

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emilianocassol wrote:
October 2011

I sure hope metalheads would support metal culture. I don't think they would be much of metalheads if not. [2]

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Brombit wrote:
September 2011

I like all those "I wanna start a sludge band..." comments :P

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Criscoh88 wrote:
September 2011

I sure hope metalheads would support metal culture. I don't think they would be much of metalheads if not.

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