(also known as sludge or sludge doom)
Fire can melt metal quickly, but rust, while slow, is just as destructive.
How it sounds
Like a Hardcore band, it is so “bone” that it can not play fast.
Sometimes as if the speaker is broken. It’s basically like Punk Hardcore with Doom tempo or just slower.
Why listen to it
Because it has quite a wide range of sound.
Too slow that it looks like lava is flowing straight from hell with Lucifer himself singing with Growl vocals while surfing on the hot lava.
Why not
Because you got new speakers and you do not want to burn them. Sometimes it even sounds like noise.
Where we meet it
In the USA
When did it start
Late 80’s.
Who are the pioneers
The Melvins recorded “Six Songs” (1986), which is considered to be Sludge’s first album.
American music writer and journalist Michael Azerrad described Blood Circus (1988) as a Sludge Metal band.
You have to listen
16, Vile Creature, Acid Bath, Buzzoven, Crowbar, Down, Eyehategod, Grief, Neurosis, Converge, Old Man Gloom, Pelican, Minsk, Whores.
Days of glory
Although they have a stable, not overly large audience, the fame of the genre lies in the fact that through it the global phenomenon of Grunge was born.
Red card
It is not uncommon for you to think that its purpose is to destroy as many speakers as possible.
What is it confused with
Being a combination of elements of Doom metal and hardcore punk, he gets confused with them!
But also with Crust, Stoner, Experimental, Drone Metal, Grunge, and Stoner rock.
How do you describe it to an irrelevant
Have you seen anyone wearing Nirvana t-shirts?
Ε! It’s a band you know !!! Theoretically, it is the band that inspired them.