Unlike many of their peers, you can’t listen to Intronaut and ignore the fact that they have one of the most original bass talents in the genre today. Joe Lester, the band’s bearded purveyor of pulse, ...

Imagine if Leviathan-era Mastodon just kept evolving to get sludgier and proggier. Yeah. Radiant Knife are that good. Heaviness. Groove. Completely unrelenting, these are the things that Radiant Knife ...

Almost every week, Nic Huber dissects the heavy riffs of bands — new and old — in The Wednesday Sludge. This week's column spotlights a newcomer to the Arkansas sludge scene. There isn't too many ...

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 ...