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KINDNESS. (with Attila) (2024)
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Goldstar (24-bit HD audio) (2025)
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Featured Sludge Metal Album
Mercury (2024)
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Ithaca's Decrement draw from the rich upstate New York heavy music tradition, weaving post-metal's expansive textures together with sludge's grinding heaviness and doom's glacial pace. Since 2018, they've built songs that collapse under their own weight — beautifully.
A New York outfit formed in 2023 that drags sludge's tar-thick riffing into the grinding momentum of thrash, built on punishing tempos and walls of distortion that rarely relent.
Rochester's Elkhound emerged in 2024 with sludge metal that favors the slow grind over flash, building tension through sheer heaviness and the kind of pacing that lets each riff breathe before crushing you under it.
New York's Elks straddle the line between traditional heavy metal and sludge, pulling riff-craft from both traditions to create something that hits with genuine weight while maintaining melody's grip.
Brooklyn's Empire of Dust arrived in 2023 blending melodic thrash aggression with metalcore structure, channeling New York City's restless energy into a sound that moves between technical riffing and muscular breakdown momentum.
Syracuse's Engineer drags sludge metal through the salt-gray winters of upstate New York, building slow, corrosive compositions out of distortion and weight since 2021. Their sound suggests infrastructure left to rust — heavy, neglected, and inevitable in its collapse.
Hudson Valley's Enskye builds atmospheric sludge and post-metal into slow-rising emotional catharsis, using New York's scenic Hudson River backdrop as a spiritual canvas for expansive, heavy instrumental exploration.
Out of Patchogue, New York, False Gods deal in the slow and heavy — doom and sludge metal that crawls forward with deliberate menace. Formed in 2016, they build tension through weight and repetition rather than speed.
Buffalo's Fane works in the overlapping territory of doom and sludge metal, where slow riffs carry enormous weight and the atmosphere is thick enough to feel physical. Since 2017, they've been one of upstate New York's heavier propositions.
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