List of sludge metal bands

This is a list of bands that play sludge metal, or "sludge", a genre of heavy metal music that originated through combining elements of doom metal and hardcore punk.

List of artists

Traditional/Southern sludge

These bands are the pioneers of the genre or are strongly influenced by those bands. Nearly all are from the Southern United States.

• 16
• Acid Bath[1]
• Buzzoven[2]
• Cavity
• Corrosion of Conformity[3]
• Crowbar
• Down[3]
• Eyehategod
• Graves at Sea[4]
• Harvey Milk[5]
• Iron Monkey[6]
• Melvins[7]
• Once Nothing
• Superjoint Ritual[3]
• Trenches

Stoner sludge

These bands have mixed typical stoner rock traits with typical sludge metal traits, and may be considered a part of both genres.

• Bongzilla[8]
• Electric Wizard[9]
• High on Fire[10][11]
• Kylesa[12]
• Mico de Noche[13][14]
• Red Fang[15]
• Torche[16]
• Weedeater[17]

Other fusions with sludge metal

• Agrimonia (sludge metal, crust punk and post-metal)[18]
• Alice in Chains (sludge metal, grunge and alternative metal)[19][20][21][22][23][24]
• Baroness (sludge metal and progressive metal)[25][26]
• Black Label Society (sludge metal, hard rock and Southern rock)[27]
• Black Tusk (sludge metal, hardcore punk and stoner rock)[28][29]
• Boris (sludge metal and drone metal)[30]
• Cancer Bats (sludge metal, hardcore punk and Southern rock)[31][32][33]
• Circle Takes the Square (sludge metal, screamo and post-hardcore)[34]
• Corrosion of Conformity (hardcore punk, crossover, sludge metal, Southern rock)
• Cult of Luna (sludge metal, progressive metal and post-metal)
• Dumb Numbers (sludge, doom, noise rock and "swooning feedback pop")[35][36]
• Dystopia (sludge metal and crust punk)
• Fudge Tunnel (sludge metal, noise rock and alternative metal)[37]
• Helms Alee (sludge metal and shoegaze)[38][39]
• Isis (sludge metal and post-rock)[40]
• KEN Mode (sludge metal, noise rock and post-hardcore)[41][42]
• Kingdom of Sorrow (sludge metal and metalcore)[43]
• Lair of the Minotaur (sludge metal and thrash metal)[44]
• Mastodon (sludge metal, progressive metal, stoner rock, and alternative metal)[45]
• Mistress (sludge metal and death metal)[46]
• Nights Like These (sludge metal and deathcore)
• Nirvana (sludge metal, punk rock, indie rock and pop)[47][48][49]
• The Ocean (sludge metal, progressive metal and post-metal)[50]
• Part Chimp (sludge metal and noise rock)[51]
• Raw Radar War (sludge metal and crust punk)[52]
• Slugdge (Blackened death metal, progressive metal, and sludge metal)
• Sofa King Killer (sludge metal, doom metal, rock and roll, and punk rock)
• Soilent Green (sludge metal and grindcore)[53][54][55]
• Soundgarden (sludge metal and alternative rock)[56]
• Sumac (sludge metal and post-metal)[57]
• Totimoshi (sludge metal and alternative rock)[58][59]
• Will Haven (sludge metal and alternative metal)[60]
• Whores (sludge metal and noise rock)[61]

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