Down-beat. Down-Tempo. Down-Tuned.

The list author says:
	"Some amazingly heavy riffage from one of the most under-rated sludge bands of all time. The vocals aren't too shabby either."

The list author says:
	"The original drone album. Hugely influential, this is possibly the heaviest record Sub Pop ever released."

The list author says:
	"Before Queens Of The Stone Age, Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri produced much heavier work. A stoner rock guitar showcase."

The list author says:
	"Gadzooks, but this is one scary album! Stephen O'Malley skillfully demonstates that sometimes the silence between notes can be just as heavy as the notes themselves here."

The list author says:
	"Blurring the lines between sludge, grunge and hardcore-punk, The Melvins bring something decidedly eccentric to the party with this album."

The list author says:
	"The single most depressing album of all time. Sludgy riffs set to cold mechanical beats and screeching noise."

The list author says:
	"Taking the drone/doom formula to its logical conclusion, this album isn't heard so much as felt."

The list author says:
	"A stoner rock classic. Heavy, melodic and with more than a slight nod to Black Sabbath, this album is a masterpiece."

The list author says:
	"This is a truly ugly sounding album. Steve Austin certainly cooked up something weird with this slab of distorted, echoey noise."

The list author says:
	"Japanese madness in the (most likely collapsed) vein of The Melvins and Earth."

The list author says:
	"Before they disappeared off into prog territory never to be seen again, Mastodon made some of the heaviest technical sludge known to man!"

The list author says:
	"Better known for their more commercial efforts, this classic 'Youth album is as beautiful and haunting as it is ugly and perverse"

The list author says:
	"Bludgeoning post-metal/sludge/Neurosis worship from Sweden. For the intellectual doom-monger."

The list author says:
	"Brilliantly cliched mong-along riffage from Dorset's finest. Turn on, tune in and be very. very scared."

The list author says:
	"A gloriously vulgar continuation of the Eyehategod/Iron Monkey sludgecore tradition, courtesy of five drunken and angry Brummies."

The list author says:
	"Agonisingly slow hardcore, dripping with bile, despair and futile rage, anyone? The only band to use conviction as an instrument."

The list author says:
	"The first six Sabbath albums are all masterpieces in their own way, but this was the high watermark for all detuned nastiness to come."

The list author says:
	"This album set the standard for sludge. A bleak fusion of punk, blues and southern rock, stabbed with dirty needles and soaked in bourbon and bayou water."

The list author says:
	"Ever wondered what doom would sound like if it channeled light instead of darkness? Filled with sonic beauty and a refreshingly sincere spirituality."

The list author says:
	"Desvervedly at the forefront of the modern sludge pack, this album effortlessly blends crushing heaviness with melody and subtlety. A rare gem."

The list author says:
	"Sloppy, sludgy and malignant, Flipper made slowed down noise-punk that was grindingly melancholic and drenched with sardonic venom."

The list author says:
	"Gloriously groovy mong-along riffage with hints of delta blues and southern-fried rock. A neglected landmark in sludge."

The list author says:
	"Hellishly intense drug-fuelled rage from one of sludge metal's leading pioneers. Crushingly heavy, yet savagely punk and overflowing with anger and despair."

The list author says:
	"A masterpiece of orchestral post-rock. Harrowing, challenging and hypnotically beautiful."

The list author says:
	"A wonderfully unsubtle blend of NOLA sludge, death metal and hard rock that is bludgeoning, yet perversely listenable. Unique to say the least."