the "genres" of stoner metal, sludge, and post-metal all seem to bleed/flow together at various times so playing metal bartender, i've cooked up this list of albums those interested in the genres can use as suggestions/starting points. this is just a basic primer with 25 albums... not a definitive list by any stretch. just albums i love. some are landmark releases that helped define the genre... while others are recent releases from cool bands that MS/labels have helped me uncover. Enjoy.

(not in any specific order!)

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BitterCOld | 27.09.2011

	1.	Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops Pogo-approved vileness
	2.	Baroness - Blue Record sludge-lite with lots of 70's rock
	3.	Down - Nola Anselmo's Nawlins stoned side project
	4.	High On Fire - Death Is This Communion "I love this album!" - Matt Pike's missing shirt
	5.	Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun stoner doom from the "high" desert
	6.	Corrosion Of Conformity - In The Arms Of God hard-core turned southern stoner rawk
	7.	Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain pot-fueled Sabbath worship jams
	8.	Sleestak - The Fall Of Altrusia stonerdoom jams from beyond the pylon
	9.	Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder sludgey supergroup
	10.	Kylesa - Time Will Fuse Its Worth where tension - and aggression - unfolds
	11.	A Storm Of Light - As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us, Our Silver Memories Fade as the valley of post becomes us, our stoned memories blaze
	12.	Year Of No Light - Ausserwelt post-cure metal
	13.	Ufomammut - Eve fuzzed out Italian jams
	14.	Torche - Meanderthal sugary thunderpop fun
	15.	Buzzov?en - ...At A Loss you will hate this album. it hates you.
	16.	Ortega - 1634 nederlander nautic stonersludgedoom
	17.	Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood crushing landmark
	18.	Minsk - The Ritual Fires Of Abandonment spacious trippy post-sludge
	19.	Eibon - Entering Darkness blackened sludgedoom
	20.	Dukatalon - Saved By Fear RUN! riffs!
	21.	5ive - 5ive 5antastic post-instrumental
	22.	Rising - To Solemn Ash copenhagen sludgenriffen
	23.	Eyehategod - Take As Needed For Pain ... won't fix your pain, though
	24.	Tombs - Fear Is The Weapon blackened urban sludge
	25.	Mastodon - Leviathan White! Whale! Holy! Grail!