# List of sludge metal bands

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.

## List of artists

| Band | Formed | Origin | Notes |
| 16 | 1992 | United States | |
| Acid Bath | 1991 | United States | |
| Agrimonia | 2005 | Sweden | Also classed as crust punk and post-metal. |
| Alice in Chains | 1987 | United States | Also classed as grunge, alternative metal, alternative rock, and doom metal. |
| Amenra | 1999 | Belgium | Also classed as post-metal. |
| Baroness | 2003 | United States | Also classed as progressive metal and stoner metal. |
| Big Business | 2004 | United States | Also classed as stoner metal. |
| Bison B.C. | 2006 | Canada | Also classed as stoner metal and doom metal. |
| Black Tusk | 2005 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal and hardcore punk. |
| Blood Circus | 1988 | United States | |
| Bongzilla | 1995 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal. |
| Boris | 1992 | Japan | Also classed as experimental metal and drone metal. |
| Burning Witch | 1995 | United States | Also classed as doom metal and stoner doom. |
| Buzzoven | 1990 | United States | |
| Cavity | 1992 | United States | |
| Celeste | 2005 | France | Also classed as post-hardcore and black metal. |
| Conan | 2006 | United Kingdom | Also classed as doom metal. |
| Conjurer | 2014 | United Kingdom | Also classed as post-metal and doom metal. |
| Corrosion of Conformity | 1982 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal and southern metal. |
| Corrupted | 1994 | Japan | Also classed as doom metal and drone metal. |
| Crowbar | 1990 | United States | |
| Cult of Luna | 1998 | Sweden | Also classed as post-metal and doom metal. |
| Down | 1991 | United States | Also classed as southern metal and stoner metal. |
| Dystopia | 1991 | United States | Also classed as crust punk. |
| Eyehategod | 1988 | United States | |
| Fudge Tunnel | 1988 | United Kingdom | Also classed as noise rock and alternative metal. |
| Gaza | 2004 | United States | Also classed as mathcore and grindcore. |
| Godflesh | 1988 | United Kingdom | Also classed as industrial metal and experimental metal. |
| Graves at Sea | 2002 | United States | Also classed as doom metal. |
| Greenmachine | 1995 | Japan | Also classed as stoner metal. |
| Grief | 1991 | United States | |
| Harkonen | 1997 | United States | Also classed as post-hardcore and math rock. |
| Harvey Milk | 1992 | United States | |
| Helms Alee | 2007 | United States | Also classed as post-hardcore, noise rock, shoegaze, and stoner metal. |
| High on Fire | 1998 | United States | Also classed as stoner metal, doom metal, and thrash metal. |
| Isis | 1997 | United States | Also classed as post-metal. |
| Iron Monkey | 1994 | United Kingdom | |
| Jucifer | 1993 | United States | Also classed as noise rock. |
| Keelhaul | 1997 | United States | Also classed as mathcore and post-hardcore. |
| KEN Mode | 1999 | Canada | Also classed as noise rock and post-hardcore. |
| Kingdom of Sorrow | 2005 | United States | Also classed as metalcore. |
| Knut | 1994 | Switzerland | Also classed as mathcore. |
| Kylesa | 2001 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal. |
| Lody Kong | 2011 | United States | Also classed as hardcore punk, grunge and thrash metal. |
| Lair of the Minotaur | 2003 | United States | Also classed as thrash metal. |
| Mantar | 2012 | Germany | |
| Mastodon | 2000 | United States | Also classed as progressive metal and stoner metal. |
| Melvins | 1983 | United States | Also classed as alternative rock, experimental rock, grunge, noise rock, and stoner rock. |
| Mico de Noche | 2001 | United States | Also classed as stoner metal. |
| Mistress | 1999 | United Kingdom | Also classed as grindcore and death metal. |
| Neurosis | 1985 | United States | Also classed as post-metal. |
| Nightstick | 1992 | United States | Also classed as noise rock and acid rock. |
| The Ocean | 2000 | Germany | Also classed as progressive metal, post-metal, and experimental metal. |
| Old Man Gloom | 1999 | United States | Also classed as post-metal. |
| Part Chimp | 2000 | United Kingdom | Also classed as noise rock. |
| Raging Speedhorn | 1998 | United Kingdom | Also classed as extreme metal, hardcore punk, and stoner metal. |
| Raw Radar War | 2002 | United States | Also classed as hardcore punk and crust punk. |
| Red Fang | 2005 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal. |
| Sofa King Killer | 1999 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal. |
| Shallow North Dakota | 1993 | Canada | Also classed as noise rock. |
| Soilent Green | 1988 | United States | Also classed as grindcore. |
| Sourvein | 1993 | United States | Also classed as doom metal. |
| Stake | 2004 | Belgium | Also classed as post-rock/metal. |
| Sumac | 2014 | Canada / United States | Also classed as post-metal. |
| Superjoint Ritual | 1993 | United States | Also classed as hardcore punk. |
| Thou | 2005 | United States | |
| Torche | 2004 | United States | Also classed as stoner rock/metal and alternative rock. |
| Totimoshi | 1999 | United States | Also classed as noise rock, alternative rock, stoner rock/metal, and alternative metal. |
| Trenches | 2007 | United States | Also classed as metalcore. |
| Vorvaň | 2009 | Russia | Also classed as hardcore punk. |
| Weedeater | 1998 | United States | Also classed as stoner metal. |
| Whores | 2010 | United States | Also classed as noise rock. |
| Willard | 1989 | United States | Also classed as grunge, doom metal, and alternative metal. |
| Will Haven | 1995 | United States | Also classed as metalcore, post-hardcore, and alternative metal. |
| Year of No Light | 2001 | France | Also classed as post-metal and post-rock. |
| Zozobra | 2006 | United States | Also classed as post-metal. |