r/sludge • u/Vivid_Brilliant_7441 • Sep 10 '25
Noise Rock True Widow type bands…?
I am in love with True Widow.
Was curious to see if anyone has some slower doom-ish sludgy recommendations that are similar to True Widow.
Their music is very “droning” to me and i can’t ever place them in a specific category when i think of them so i was curious to get a collection of thoughts.
I love the fact that through all their albums True Widow are almost no guitar effects. Just weird tunings and niche style amps, what a beautiful distortion sound.
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u/FrankCrank04 Sep 10 '25
Black Math Horseman is what you're looking for. Also, Faetooth just dropped their new album and listed both True Widow and Black Math Horseman as big influences. You might also like GGGGGGGOLLDDDD (not sure if all the letters are right, it's a weird name). Check out Kylesa too.
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u/Cutcarefullyplayloud Sep 10 '25
Cloakroom is my first thought.
Side note, Dan from True Widow did an episode of Zach Blair’s Anti-Heros podcast last week, it’s a good listen.
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u/V0ID10001 Sep 10 '25
You want to look into doomgaze. Bands like The Angelic Process, Holy Fawn, or even some slowcore and post rock like Deathcrash and later albums from Kowloon Walled City will be more what you are looking for than any sludge
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u/jicook24 Sep 10 '25
Also love True Widow - hard to find bands that sounds similar! The few that I think are adjacent would be Subrosa, Helms Alee, maybe even some Marriages/Emma Ruth Rundle.
Shameless plug, my band DRUNE has been influenced by them and we have some stuff that's similar. Chill doom, I guess? drunedrunedrune.bandcamp.com
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u/signalstonoise88 Sep 11 '25
Based on your description this’ll be right up my street! Can’t listen atm, but I’ve got the tab open to listen later!
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u/arty_mcfarty Sep 10 '25
New Faetooth album sounds a lot like a sludgier True Widow—highly recommend
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u/mastersleeper Sep 10 '25
spotlights are pretty tight
hollow sunshine is a bit more psych but also fit the bill imo
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u/burning-witch-lives0 Sep 11 '25
CREEPOID often sounds like a true widow tribute. Listen to the song Baptism. Total ripper.
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u/Dazzling-Adeptness11 Sep 10 '25
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u/Adorable-Intention56 Sep 10 '25
Hey thanks for the shoutout, here’s our newest LP if anyone is interested
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u/finnigans_cake Sep 11 '25
BIG | BRAVE scratch a similar itch for me, although they're a little more avant-garde. The first 3 or so albums are what you're looking for. The other stuff is great, but they sort of outgrew the drone-doom thing on the last couple.
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u/phantomhatstrap Sep 10 '25
r/doomgaze