This is a list of bands that play sludge metal, or sludge, a genre of extreme music that originated through combining elements of doom metal and hardcore punk.
| Band | Formed | Origin | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 [1] | 1992 | United States | |
| Acid Bath [2] | 1991 | United States | |
| Agrimonia [3] | 2005 | Sweden | Also classed as crust punk and post-metal. [3] |
| Alice in Chains [4] [5] | 1987 | United States | Also classed as grunge, [6] alternative metal, [7] alternative rock, [8] and doom metal. [9] |
| Amenra [10] | 1999 | Belgium | Also classed as post-metal. |
| Baroness [11] | 2003 | United States | Also classed as progressive metal [12] and stoner metal. [11] |
| Big Business [13] | 2004 | United States | Also classed as stoner metal. [14] |
| Bison B.C. [15] | 2006 | Canada | Also classed as stoner metal [16] and doom metal. [17] |
| Black Tusk [18] | 2005 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal [19] [20] and hardcore punk. [20] |
| Blood Circus [21] | 1988 | United States | |
| Body Void [22] | 2014 | United States | Also classed as doom metal. [22] |
| Bongzilla [23] | 1995 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal. |
| Boris [24] | 1992 | Japan | Also classed as experimental metal [25] and drone metal. [24] |
| Burning Witch [26] | 1995 | United States | Also classed as doom metal [26] and stoner doom. [26] |
| Buzzoven [27] | 1990 | United States | |
| Cavity [28] | 1992 | United States | |
| Celeste [29] | 2005 | France | Also classed as post-hardcore and black metal. [29] |
| Chat Pile [30] | 2019 | United States | Also classed as noise rock. [31] |
| Conan [32] | 2006 | United Kingdom | Also classed as doom metal. [32] |
| Conjurer [33] | 2014 | United Kingdom | Also classed as post-metal [34] and doom metal. [35] |
| Corrosion of Conformity [36] | 1982 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal [37] and southern metal. [38] |
| Corrupted [39] | 1994 | Japan | Also classed as doom metal and drone metal. |
| Crowbar [40] | 1990 | United States | |
| Cult of Luna [41] | 1998 | Sweden | Also classed as post-metal [42] and doom metal. [42] |
| Down [36] | 1991 | United States | Also classed as southern metal [38] and stoner metal. [43] |
| Dragpipe [44] | 2001 | United States | Also classed as alternative metal, [45] nu metal, [46] and stoner rock. [44] |
| Dystopia [47] | 1991 | United States | Also classed as crust punk. [47] |
| Eyehategod [48] | 1988 | United States | |
| Fudge Tunnel [49] | 1988 | United Kingdom | Also classed as noise rock [49] and alternative metal. [50] |
| Gaza [51] | 2004 | United States | Also classed as mathcore [52] and grindcore. [51] |
| Godflesh [53] | 1988 | United Kingdom | Also classed as industrial metal [54] and experimental metal. [55] |
| Graves at Sea [56] | 2002 | United States | Also classed as doom metal. [57] |
| Greenmachine [58] | 1995 | Japan | Also classed as stoner metal. [59] |
| Grief [60] | 1991 | United States | |
| Harkonen [61] [62] | 1997 | United States | Also classed as post-hardcore [63] and math rock. [61] |
| Harvey Milk [64] | 1992 | United States | |
| Helms Alee [65] | 2007 | United States | Also classed as post-hardcore, [66] noise rock, [65] shoegaze, [65] and stoner metal. [65] |
| High on Fire [67] | 1998 | United States | Also classed as stoner metal, [68] doom metal, [69] and thrash metal. [70] |
| Isis [71] | 1997 | United States | Also classed as post-metal. [72] |
| Iron Monkey [73] | 1994 | United Kingdom | |
| Jucifer [74] | 1993 | United States | Also classed as noise rock. [75] |
| Keelhaul [76] | 1997 | United States | Also classed as mathcore [77] and post-hardcore. [78] |
| KEN Mode [79] | 1999 | Canada | Also classed as noise rock [80] and post-hardcore. [81] |
| Kingdom of Sorrow [82] | 2005 | United States | Also classed as metalcore. |
| Knut [83] | 1994 | Switzerland | Also classed as mathcore. [84] |
| Kylesa [85] | 2001 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal. [85] |
| Lody Kong [86] | 2011 | United States | Also classed as hardcore punk, grunge and thrash metal. |
| Lair of the Minotaur [87] | 2003 | United States | Also classed as thrash metal. [88] |
| Mantar [89] | 2012 | Germany | |
| Mastodon [90] | 2000 | United States | Also classed as progressive metal [91] and stoner metal. [92] |
| Melvins [93] | 1983 | United States | Also classed as alternative rock, [94] experimental rock, [95] grunge, [96] noise rock, [97] and stoner rock. [98] |
| Mico de Noche [99] | 2001 | United States | Also classed as stoner metal. [100] |
| Minsk [101] [102] | 2002 | United States | Also classed as post-metal [103] and doom metal. [103] |
| Mistress [104] | 1999 | United Kingdom | Also classed as grindcore and death metal. [104] [105] |
| Neurosis [106] | 1985 | United States | Also classed as post-metal. [106] |
| Nightstick [107] | 1992 | United States | Also classed as noise rock and acid rock. [107] |
| Nirvana [108] | 1987 | United States | The band’s earliest work, Bleach is described as sludge metal. [108] [109] Generally described as grunge and alternative rock. |
| Norma Jean [110] | 1997 | United States | Also classed as mathcore, [111] metalcore, [112] post-hardcore, [113] and nu metal (early, as Luti-Kriss). [114] |
| The Ocean [115] | 2000 | Germany | Also classed as progressive metal, post-metal, and experimental metal. [116] |
| Old Man Gloom [117] | 1999 | United States | Also classed as post-metal. [118] |
| Part Chimp [119] | 2000 | United Kingdom | Also classed as noise rock. [119] |
| Raging Speedhorn [120] | 1998 | United Kingdom | Also classed as extreme metal, [121] hardcore punk, [122] stoner metal, [123] and nu metal (early). [124] |
| Raw Radar War [125] | 2002 | United States | Also classed as hardcore punk and crust punk. [125] |
| Red Fang [126] | 2005 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal. |
| Sofa King Killer [127] | 1999 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal. |
| Shallow North Dakota [128] | 1993 | Canada | Also classed as noise rock. [129] |
| Soilent Green [130] | 1988 | United States | Also classed as grindcore. [131] |
| Sourvein [132] | 1993 | United States | Also classed as doom metal. [133] |
| Stake [134] | 2004 | Belgium | Also classed as post-rock/metal. [135] [136] |
| Sumac [137] | 2014 | Canada / United States | Also classed as post-metal. |
| Sunrot [138] | 2013 | United States | Also classed as doom metal. |
| Superjoint Ritual [139] [140] | 1993 | United States | Also classed as hardcore punk. [140] |
| Thou [141] | 2005 | United States | |
| Torche [142] | 2004 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal [142] and alternative rock. [143] |
| Totimoshi [144] | 1999 | United States | Also classed as noise rock, [145] alternative rock, [146] stoner rock/metal, [147] and alternative metal. [148] |
| Trenches [149] | 2007 | United States | Also classed as metalcore. [149] |
| Unpersons [150] | 1997 | United States | Also classed as hardcore, [150] stoner rock/metal, [150] doom metal, [150] and noise rock. [151] |
| Vorvaň [152] | 2009 | Russia | Also classed as hardcore punk. [152] |
| Weedeater [153] | 1998 | United States | Also classed as stoner metal. |
| Whores [154] | 2010 | United States | Also classed as noise rock. [154] |
| Willard [155] | 1989 | United States | Also classed as grunge, doom metal, and alternative metal. |
| Will Haven [156] | 1995 | United States | Also classed as metalcore, [157] post-hardcore, [158] and alternative metal. [156] |
| Year of No Light [159] | 2001 | France | Also classed as post-metal [160] and post-rock. [161] |
| Zozobra [117] | 2006 | United States | Also classed as post-metal. |
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