Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US might have cornered the market on sludge, but they didn't hold an entire monopoly. In the UK's East Midlands, Fudge Tunnel ...

Sludge metal band Crowbar is bringing their sludge metal fury across the U.S, one city-crushing riff at a time.

Like it or not, supergroups are an inevitable part of the music landscape. There’s always a new one in the works, in no small part because they reliably attract media attention even before they’ve ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Oklahoma City’s underground and lauded sludge rock and metal quartet Chat Pile and Texan ambient and folk guitarist Hayden Pedigo could answer that question if it ever crossed your mind. Despite ...

The electrifying sludge metal powerhouse High On Fire, have been somewhat of cult favorite within the metal community. Having a number die-hard fans they’ve earned much acclaim throughout the heavy ...

Not that being one of the only bands making waves in Long Beach playing sludge metal isn’t enough, but O Zorn! also has the benefit of balancing the genre’s melodicism and dissonance. Where a band ...

Melvins, one of the most influential bands in heavy rock, are returning to San Antonio for a Friday, Oct. 17, show at Paper Tiger. The venue shared an Instagram post Tuesday morning announcing the ...

New Orleans metal icons Crowbar and Eyehategod have announced a spring 2026 U.S. tour that begins in Baton Rouge and ends at home in New Orleans.

Little Rock, Arkansas sludge metal vets Rwake have announced their first album in over 13 years, The Return of Magik, due March 14 via Relapse (pre-order). Recorded in early 2024 at East End Sounds in ...

With doom and sludge metal, the discerning listener has to be increasingly picky, as so many bands get bogged down in cartoonish Black Sabbath signifiers and clichés, but thankfully, San Francisco’s ...