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Formed in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1998 by bassist and vocalist Dave "Dixie" Collins, a veteran of the sludge act Buzzoven, Weedeater channel the heaviest elements of Southern doom and noise rock into a characteristically filthy, low-register rumble. Their debut ...And Justice for Y'all (2001) and Sixteen Tons (2003) appeared on Berserker Records before the band joined Southern Lord for God Luck and Good Speed. Their most recent album, Goliathan (2015), continued the uncompromising approach that made them central figures in the North Carolina heavy underground.
Weedevil is a stoner/doom metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, whose debut LP "The Return" was released in April 2022 via DHU Records, featuring members Lorraine Scar on vocals, Paulo Ueno and Bodão on guitars, Dani Plothow on bass, and Flávio Cavichioli on drums. They followed it with the split "Cult of Devil Sounds" alongside Mexico's Electric Cult Doomers in 2023, then released their second album "Profane Smoke Ritual" through Smolder Brains Records in June 2024. Drawing from Black Sabbath, Windhand, and Acid King, the band blends lacerating riffs with occult and spiritualist themes.
Stoner and doom metal project from Poland emerging in 2024. Weedgazer channels hazy psychedelic atmospheres through heavy stoner doom riffs.
Stoner and doom metal band from Kraków, Poland formed in 2023. Weedow delivers heavy, groove-laden stoner doom from the former royal capital of Poland.
Stoner doom metal trio from Berlin formed in 2013 when Basti and Philip met Igor at a Belzebong show. Their releases Into the Acid Swamp and Come on let's Druid! deliver heavy, psychedelic riffs rooted in stoner rock, doom, and sludge metal traditions.
Weedthrone was a stoner/doom metal project from São Paulo, Brazil, anchored by guitarist and bassist Nattens Man on Mars alongside vocalist Mellissa Rainbow and drummer Bitch Hunter. The project released the five-track album "Temple of Superdose" in January 2022, recorded the previous year, which included a cover of the 1973 track "What to Do" by Brazilian artist Vanusa. The band was celebrated in Brazilian underground stoner circles for its warmly distorted riff-heavy approach before splitting up.
Death, doom, and sludge metal band from Gliwice, Poland emerging in 2025. Weedvoid merges the heaviest extreme metal subgenres into a crushing triple-genre assault from the Upper Silesian industrial basin.
Stoner, sludge, and doom metal band from Bolzano, Italy emerging in 2024. Weedzing channels the heavy atmospheres of the South Tyrolean Alps into crushing stoner/doom from the Dolomite region.
Brooklyn's Weightlessness have been combining doom and death metal since 2014 in the dense, eclectic crucible that New York's underground provides. Their sound leans into the death-doom tradition's love of contrast — the crush of doom, the precision of death, the grief that lives between them — with a Brooklyn sourness that keeps it from ever becoming merely atmospheric. Slow, dark, and specific to the place that made them.
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