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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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AMENRA "Vanuytsel 7"" (2021)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Stonewielders craft doom and sludge metal from Bielefeld, building crushing compositions from the city famously said not to exist. Active since 2018, they bring ponderous, stone-wielding heaviness to the Westphalian underground.
Uppsala's Stormr pair heavy and doom metal from Sweden's academic capital since 2018. Their Old Norse name meaning "storm" channels the tempestuous energy of Viking-age weather into compositions of weighty, historically rooted metal.
Stormriders is a stoner/doom metal band from New York City, formed in 2024, blending the hazy, fuzz-drenched heaviness of stoner metal with the slow, crushing momentum of doom.
Story of the Eye is a blackened sludge/doom metal band from Fayetteville, Arkansas, formed in 2019, named after the transgressive Georges Bataille novella and combining the suffocating weight of sludge with black metal's darkness and malice.
Stoven is a stoner/doom metal band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 2017, delivering slow-burning, fuzz-heavy material that draws equally from psychedelic rock and the crushing weight of doom.
Minneapolis, Minnesota trio formed in 2018 operating at the intersection of sludge, stoner, and doom metal, crafting slow-burning, heavily distorted material with a hazy psychedelic undertow.
Heavy and doom metal act from Morrison, Illinois, formed in 2024, drawing on the murky crossover between hard rock and doom to produce slow, foreboding material with a classicist sensibility.
Doom and stoner metal band from Prescott Valley, Arizona, formed in 2016, crafting hazy, heavy material that draws on the psychedelic warmth of stoner rock and the slow, oppressive weight of doom metal.
Straw have been crafting heavy, stoner, and doom metal from Solingen since 1996, making them one of the longest-running stoner/doom acts in the Bergisches Land. Their three decades of riff-driven heaviness have cemented their place in the North Rhine-Westphalia underground.
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