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The band Melvins was founded in 1983. Before coming to fame, the band got it’s start in Montesano. Generally, music journalists would define Melvins’s style within the genre/s of grunge, sludge metal, and other rock music.
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Big Business
Big Business is an American heavy metal band from Seattle, Washington, United States, founded by Jared Warren (Karp) and Coady Willis (The Murder City Devils). They have been based out of Los Angeles, California since 2006. Their sound is characterized by a bo... [wikipedia]
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Eyehategod
Eyehategod (also abbreviated and referred to as EHG) is an American sludge metal band from New Orleans who formed in 1988. They have become one of the better known bands to emerge from the NOLA metal scene. Throughout the years, their core lineup has remained,... [wikipedia]
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Sleep
Sleep is an American doom metal/stoner metal power trio from San Jose, California. The band earned critical and record label attention early in its career. Critic Eduardo Rivadavia describes them as "perhaps the ultimate stoner rock band" and notes they exerte... [wikipedia]
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Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk is an American experimental rock/noise rock band that formed in Athens, Georgia in the early 1990s. While Harvey Milk invariably draws comparisons to the Melvins, due to their penchant for slow, heavy riffs, the band has touched upon such artists a... [wikipedia]
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Kyuss
Kyuss ( KY-əs) was an American rock band, formed in Palm Desert, California, in 1987. Kyuss disbanded in 1995, and since then, members of Kyuss have gone on to form or play in several notable bands including Queens of the Stone Age, Fu Manchu, Dwarves, Eagles ... [wikipedia]
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The Jesus Lizard
The Jesus Lizard is an American rock band formed in 1987 in Austin, Texas and based in Chicago, Illinois. They were "a leading noise rock band in the American independent underground…[who] turned out a series of independent records filled with scathing, disem... [wikipedia]
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High On Fire
High on Fire is an American sludge metal band from Oakland, California, that was formed in 1998. Matt Pike, the band's frontman and founder, also plays guitar for the doom metal band Sleep. The band won the 2019 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance with the... [wikipedia]
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Boris
Boris (ボリス, Borisu) is a Japanese experimental music band formed in 1992 in Tokyo and composed of drummer Atsuo Mizuno, guitarist/bassist Takeshi Ohtani, and guitarist/keyboardist Wata. All three members participate in vocal performance. Boris has released mor... [wikipedia]
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Electric Wizard
Electric Wizard are an English doom metal band from Dorset. The band formed in 1993 and have recorded nine studio albums, two of which have been considered genre landmarks: Come My Fanatics… (1997) and Dopethrone (2000). Electric Wizard's brand of doom metal ... [wikipedia]
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Weedeater
Weedeater are an American stoner metal band formed in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, in 1998. The group's most recent album, Goliathan, was released on May 19, 2015.... [wikipedia]
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Buzzov•en
Buzzoven (typeset Buzzov•en) is an American heavy metal band from Salisbury, North Carolina, United States, formed in 1990. The band was known for being one of the founders of the sludge genre along with NOLA's Eyehategod and Acid Bath, and also for their out-... [wikipedia]
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Mudhoney
Mudhoney is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1988, following the demise of Green River. Mudhoney's members are singer and rhythm guitarist Mark Arm, lead guitarist Steve Turner, bassist Guy Maddison and drummer Dan Peters. Original bassis... [wikipedia]
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Neurosis
Neurosis is an American post-metal band from Oakland, California, United States. It was formed in 1985 by guitarist Scott Kelly, bassist Dave Edwardson, and drummer Jason Roeder, initially as a hardcore punk band. Chad Salter joined as a second guitarist and a... [wikipedia]
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Tad
Tad (often styled as TAD) was an American grunge band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 1988 by Tad Doyle as one of the first bands of the grunge era.... [wikipedia]
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Acid Bath
Acid Bath was an American sludge metal band from Houma, Louisiana, active from 1991 to 1997. Acid Bath combined doom metal roots with influences from hardcore punk, death metal, gothic rock, and blues to create the band's unique sound. In a Pit Magazine interv... [wikipedia]
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Crowbar
Crowbar is an American sludge metal band formed in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1990. Through infusing a slow, low-keyed, brooding doom metal sound with the aggression of hardcore punk, they pioneered a style known as sludge metal – albeit Windstein admitted a mi... [wikipedia]
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