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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.

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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]
Baroness[10] 2003 United States Also classed as progressive metal[11] and stoner metal.[10]
Bison B.C.[12] 2006 Canada Also classed as stoner metal[13] and doom metal.[14]
Black Tusk[15] 2005 United States Also classed as stoner rock/metal[16][17] and hardcore punk.[17]
Blood Circus[18] 1988 United States
Bongzilla[19] 1995 United States Also classed as stoner rock/metal.
Boris[20] 1992 Japan Also classed as experimental metal[21] and drone metal.[20]
Burning Witch[22] 1995 United States Also classed as doom metal[22] and stoner doom.[22]
Buzzoven[23] 1990 United States
Cavity[24] 1992 United States
Celeste[25] 2005 France Also classed as post-hardcore and black metal.[25]
Corrosion of Conformity[26] 1982 United States Also classed as stoner rock/metal[27] and southern metal.[28]
Corrupted[29] 1994 Japan Also classed as doom metal and drone metal.
Crowbar[30] 1990 United States
Cult of Luna[31] 1998 Sweden Also classed as post-metal[32] and doom metal.[32]
Down[26] 1991 United States Also classed as southern metal[28] and stoner metal.[33]
Dystopia[34] 1991 United States Also classed as crust punk.[34]
Eyehategod[35] 1988 United States
Fudge Tunnel[36] 1988 United Kingdom Also classed as noise rock,[36] and alternative metal.[37]
Gaza[38] 2004 United States Also classed as mathcore[39] and grindcore.[38]
Godflesh[40] 1988 United Kingdom Also classed as industrial metal[41] and experimental metal.[42]
Graves at Sea[43] 2002 United States Also classed as doom metal.[44]
Grief[45] 1991 United States
Harkonen[46][47] 1997 United States Also classed as post-hardcore[48] and math rock.[46]
Harvey Milk[49] 1992 United States
Helms Alee[50] 2007 United States Also classed as post-hardcore,[51] noise rock,[50] shoegaze,[50] and stoner metal.[50]
High on Fire[52] 1998 United States Also classed as stoner metal,[53] doom metal,[54] and thrash metal.[55]
Isis[56] 1997 United States Also classed as post-metal.[57]
Iron Monkey[58] 1994 United Kingdom
Keelhaul[59] 1997 United States Also classed as mathcore[60] and post-hardcore.[61]
KEN Mode[62] 1999 Canada Also classed as noise rock[63] and post-hardcore.[64]
Kingdom of Sorrow[65] 2005 United States Also classed as metalcore.
Knut[66] 1994 Switzerland Also classed as mathcore.[67]
Kylesa[68] 2001 United States Also classed as stoner rock/metal.[68]
Lody Kong[69] 2011 United States Also classed as hardcore punk, grunge and thrash metal.
Lair of the Minotaur[70] 2003 United States Also classed as thrash metal.[71]
Mantar[72] 2012 Germany
Mastodon[73] 2000 United States Also classed as progressive metal[74] and stoner metal.[75]
Melvins[76] 1983 United States Also classed as alternative rock,[77] experimental rock,[78] grunge,[79] noise rock,[80] and stoner rock.[81]
Mico de Noche[82] 2001 United States Also classed as stoner metal.[83]
Mistress[84] 1999 United Kingdom Also classed as grindcore and death metal.[84][85]
Neurosis[86] 1985 United States Also classed as post-metal.[86]
Nightstick[87] 1992 United States Also classed as noise rock and acid rock.[87]
The Ocean[88] 2000 Germany Also classed as progressive metal, post-metal, and experimental metal.[89]
Part Chimp[90] 2000 United Kingdom Also classed as noise rock.[90]
Raw Radar War[91] 2002 United States Also classed as hardcore punk and crust punk.[91]
Red Fang[92] 2005 United States Also classed as stoner rock/metal.
Sofa King Killer[93] 1999 United States Also classed as stoner rock/metal.
Soilent Green[94] 1988 United States Also classed as grindcore.[95]
Sourvein[96] 1993 United States Also classed as doom metal.[97]
Stake[98] 2004 Belgium Also classed as post-rock/metal.
Sumac[99] 2014 Canada / United States Also classed as post-metal.
Superjoint Ritual[100][101] 1993 United States Also classed as hardcore punk.[101]
Thou[102] 2005 United States
Torche[103] 2004 United States Also classed as stoner rock/metal[103] and alternative rock.[104]
Totimoshi[105] 1999 United States Also classed as noise rock,[106] alternative rock,[107] stoner rock/metal,[108] and alternative metal.[109]
Trenches[110] 2007 United States Also classed as metalcore.[110]
Vorvaň[111] 2009 Russia Also classed as hardcore punk.[111]
Weedeater[112] 1998 United States Also classed as stoner metal.
Whores[113] 2010 United States Also classed as noise rock.[113]
Willard[114] 1989 United States Also classed as grunge, doom metal, and alternative metal.
Will Haven[115] 1995 United States Also classed as metalcore,[116] post-hardcore,[117] and alternative metal.[115]
Year of No Light[118] 2001 France Also classed as post-metal[119] and post-rock.[120]

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