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The Sound of Louisiana Metal

"The Sound of Louisiana Metal" is a gritty dive into the loud, sludgy, and often chaotic world of heavy music born below the Mason-Dixon line. This playlist brings together decades of underground brutality, sludge-drenched riffs, and genre-defining aggression from a wide range of metal subgenres, all hailing from Louisiana. From the crushing doom-laden weight of Crowbar’s “Planets Collide” to the blistering blackened assault of Goatwhore’s “Apocalyptic Havoc,” the state’s diverse and uncompromising sound is well-represented.

You'll hear voices of sonic rebellion through Eyehategod’s gritty nihilism, the off-the-rails grindcore of Soilent Green, and the raw, punk-edged chaos of Arson Anthem. There’s nods to the legacy of NOLA mainstays like DOWN and Superjoint, alongside lesser-known but equally intense acts like Stressball, Ritual Killer, and Suplecs. The mix ranges from sludge and doom to death, black, grind, and experimental metal, stitching together the threads of a scene that’s always been more about attitude and guts than polish. It’s loud, it’s dirty, it’s the swamp-bred sound of defiance.

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4Mag Nitrous 2 tracks
A Hanging 3 tracks
A Novelist 2 tracks
Abysmal Lord 2 tracks
Acid Bath 3 tracks
Agents Of Oblivion 3 tracks
Arson Anthem 3 tracks
Barghest 2 tracks
Black Market Ministry 2 tracks
Catholicon 2 tracks
Cea Serin 2 tracks
Christ Inversion 3 tracks
Core9 2 tracks
Crowbar 3 tracks
Cyanide Smile 1 track
DOWN 3 tracks
Damien Storm 1 track
Dropkik 1 track
Drysocket 2 tracks
Eternal Mystery 1 track
Excommunicated 2 tracks
Exhorder 3 tracks
Eyehategod 3 tracks
Flesh Parade 2 tracks
Forming the Void 2 tracks
Gin III 1 track
Goatwhore 3 tracks
Graveyard Rodeo 3 tracks
Grayskull 1 track
Hawg Jaw 1 track
Icepick Revival 1 track
Kingdom Of Sorrow 3 tracks
Legions of Hoar Frost 1 track
Menagerie 1 track
Mule Skinner 2 tracks
Ominous Hymn 1 track
Opprobrium 2 tracks
Outlaw Order 3 tracks
Philadelphia 1 track
Philip H. Anselmo and The Illegals 3 tracks
Pitts Vs Preps 2 tracks
Radiant Knife 1 track
Ritual Killer 2 tracks
Satanist 1 track
Scour 3 tracks
Slime In The Current 1 track
Soilent Green 3 tracks
Sons of Deity 1 track
Southern Whiskey Rebellion 2 tracks
Stressball 3 tracks
Superjoint 3 tracks
Suplecs 2 tracks
Suture 2 tracks
The Devil and The Sea 1 track
The Mystick Krewe Of Clearlight 1 track
Thou 3 tracks
Unscarred 1 track
Viking Crown 3 tracks
Wicked River Rising 1 track
haarp 3 tracks