Once a week, Stack delivers a mix of the most interesting new music on the web, handpicked by the Hype Machine team. Here's a recent mix.
Latest sludge tracks
HELL - Hevy
The QuietusFollow “Kez Whelan picks out the 20 best records from 2025 in metal, year of heartening cross-pollination and pushed limits, as…” last week →
Friendship - Tree of Heaven
said the gramophoneFollow “Voilà and please enjoy - for the 21st time - Said the Gramophone's favourite songs of the year. One hundred…” last week →
GURT - Walking in the Air
Christmas a Go GoFollow “Walking in the air is a recurrent on this blog, the song from the 1982 animated film 'The Snowman' popped…” on Nov 25th →
Monolord - The Weary
The ObeliskFollow “Monolord are done recording their next album. The Gothenburg, Sweden, three-piece tracked their impending sixth full-length in Oregon with Sylvia…” on Nov 24th →
California X - Nights In The Dark
I Thought I Heard A SoundFollow “For a LONG minute there in the late '00s and early '10s, it seemed like every band wanted to be…” on Nov 24th →
Mastiff - Decimated Graves
Everything Is NoiseFollow “Metalcore is finding the most niche, darkest corners to occupy. Mastiff’s sludge-ridden barrage of riffs and callous brutality reveals how…” on Nov 21st →
Stonebirds - Croak
The ObeliskFollow “Thus ends my favorite Quarterly Review since the last one. Yeah, some of my motivation was in bookkeeping, in wanting…” on Nov 21st →
Like Rats - World Devourer
I Thought I Heard A SoundFollow “Harm's Way is literally why I'm into hardcore... at all, as in completely, as in no Harm's Way and I'm…” on Nov 20th →
GNASCH - ALCOHELLIC
No Clean SingingFollow “(Andy Synn presents another terrific trio of albums from the UK underground) I’m going to level with you, I’m running…” on Nov 20th →
PSYCHONAUT - Origins
The ObeliskFollow “It’s all over now, I’ve got momentum on my side. This is day four of the Quarterly Review. The first…” on Nov 20th →
Ravine - Deliver
The ObeliskFollow “I was gonna do this whole week, happy Monday, happy Tuesday, happy Wednesday, but I happen to feel like an…” on Nov 19th →
BEASTWARS - Levitate
The ObeliskFollow “Happy Monday, and welcome to the Quarterly Review. Or welcome back, anyhow. I said last month that I might try…” on Nov 17th →
Friendship Commanders - DEAD & DISCARDED GIRLS
Destroy//ExistFollow “DEAD & DISCARDED GIRLS, the gripping final track on BEAR, the fourth album from Nashville duo Friendship Commanders, brings the…” on Nov 14th →
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy - Human Clamore
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “Top Pick Veilburner – Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy (weird death metal) This is some very weird (and very…” on Nov 14th →