It's been a couple years since The Mound Builders' last release, but their split LP with Pale Horseman left a good impression in me,...

While being recognized as a pioneer in a genre of music is no small feat, Corrosion of Conformity have managed to deserve this distinction twice in...

Back with their second album after three years of touring and writing, India's Bevar Sea deliver a blend of doom with clear influence from...

Like every genre, sludge is a bit of an umbrella term now, as it has been used to describe bands at diverse as Eyehategod,...

Dementia Senex are a band from Italy that mix elements of sludge, death metal, and post-hardcore. Heartworm is the band’s debut release, and despite...

I feel like atmospheric sludge went into a slump almost as soon as it started to blossom. There are groups like Isis, who can...

Some bands are content with finding their niche and spending their entire careers in it. They might write the same song every time, but...

It's hard to know who to blame for this past decade's flood of metal/shoegaze crossover, but when the music is as good as it...

In terms of music that sounds absolutely hateful, sludge metal is the scene you can always count on to keep pushing the envelope. Whether...

The aspect of doom and sludge metal that's always drawn me into it is the fact that there aren't very many rules as to...