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    Posted: July 26 2007 at 22:53
Does anyone like Sludge Metal? I do! I love the slow crunchy guitars sounding like they're oozing out of a Louisiana swamp. Some bands I enjoy are Melvins, Down, The Mighty Nimbus and Acid Bath. I was told that Soilent Green was a Sludge Metal band, but I hate their music and find this to be an inaccurate description of their sound.

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Points: 64376 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2007 at 22:56
don't have any, but I've wanted to look into it


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Points: 7606 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2007 at 22:58
I like the "each song lasts fifteen minutes" variety, particularly Monarch, Boris, Moss and that crowd. Some of this tips into drone or funeral but all these genres merge plenty. I also love stoner doom and can't remember where that slots in either. perhaps Church of Misery are sludge? Who knows.

I love the Melvins but most of their work falls outside metal, I think. Eggnog EP for life, of course. =P

the other sort of sludge ala Soilent Green, Grief etc etc feels to me like grindcore slowed down. I know that's a stupid description but it seems to hold.


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I have a funeral doom album by a band called Evoken, and while it is very high quality, I find I can't listen to more than one song at a time. It's just too much of a downer.
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Points: 7606 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2007 at 23:03
Yeah, Evoken are one of the most romantic funeral doom bands out there, too, so most funeral doom is actually more painful than that. Of course, they're one of the most well-produced, too, so you don't get that distracting "this music is really amateur" feel while you listen...
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Points: 1354 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2007 at 23:58
one of the prime movers of sludge is Eyehategod, go check out their early 90s works to get some serious redneck bong hahahaha
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Points: 2511 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2007 at 06:06
Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

I have a funeral doom album by a band called Evoken, and while it is very high quality, I find I can't listen to more than one song at a time. It's just too much of a downer.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sludge_metal Smile

It's interesting that most of the Sludge bands in the archives are from the atmospheric group ...
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crust punk..?    

   



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Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sludge_metal Smile

It's interesting that most of the Sludge bands in the archives are from the atmospheric group ...
 
That is weird.Confused


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I like it when the guitars go
 
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basically my favorite sludge bands are the ones that walk the line between sludge and slow doom.  awesome stuff.
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Points: 9008 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2007 at 12:52
I haven't heard any of the traditional Sludge Metal bands, but I'm a huge fan of those Stoner/Sludge bands. I can't get enough of them!  My latest acquisition was the Ufomammut and Lent0 split.

Massive stuff, that's all I got to say.



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Isis is really the only sludge I've heard. It's alright. I'm not crazy about it.
 
EDIT: I didn't realize Boris was considered sludge. So you can add Boris to my list.


Edited by Equality 7-2521 - July 27 2007 at 12:56
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Points: 7606 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2007 at 13:00
Depends which Boris discs you've heard... they do some atmospheric stuff, some catchy rockin' work, and some deeply heavy doom.
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Points: 1882 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2007 at 13:04
Originally posted by laplace laplace wrote:

Depends which Boris discs you've heard... they do some atmospheric stuff, some catchy rockin' work, and some deeply heavy doom.
I think you forgot Psyche-folkish-rock and blues based hardcore, also there is the signature drone style. Evryone should hear Boris.
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Points: 15783 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2007 at 13:08
I'm most familar with Pink which I always considered Drone.
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Points: 262 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2007 at 13:09
I think Mastodon is pretty tight...a lot more energetic than most other prog (even prog metal) tends to be.
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Points: 7606 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2007 at 13:10
no need to split hairs so confrontationally, one person's catchy rock is another person's psyche or hardcore... =P

but yes, Boris are officially important.
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Points: 1882 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2007 at 13:11
Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

I'm most familar with Pink which I always considered Drone.
It tends to be more on the hardcore side for me, though I love the opener. If you are looking for drone try their collaboration with Sunn 0))), it is more complex/interesting than Sunn and more doomy than Boris
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Points: 8368 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2007 at 13:12
Mastadon is pretty good (although they're not sludge. Let's stay on topic people!) I like their Leviathan album.
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