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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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New Jersey's Eternal Fuzz have been dialing up mammoth stoner doom and post-metal walls of fuzz since 2009, their sound as thick and unhurried as a summer afternoon that refuses to end. Cranbury Township has produced one of the Garden State's most reliably heavy acts.
Exploring the depths of doom metal and post-metal, this Dutch outfit has been refining their craft since 2025. Their sound hinges on cavernous low-end and hypnotic repetition, delivered with fierce commitment.
Part of Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape, this act channels post-metal with a focus on Iron Maiden harmonies refracted through a death metal lens. Formed in 2019, based in Petrozavodsk, the results are heavier and more inventive than the genre tag might suggest.
Post-metal act from Dortmund in Germany's Ruhr Valley, crafting expansive, atmospheric compositions since 2016. Their German name, meaning "eternally finite," captures the philosophical tension between permanence and impermanence in their sound.
In existence since 2021, this Amsterdam Doom Metal, Post-Metal, and Progressive Metal outfit delivers polyrhythmic complexity balanced with emotive melodic passages. Their place within Holland's dense concentration of metal talent speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Exploring the depths of post-metal and sludge metal, this Polish outfit from Poznań has been refining their craft since 2023. Their sound hinges on Eyehategod-indebted misery channeled through crushing volume, delivered with unwavering intensity.
Doom and post-metal band from Helsinki, Finland formed in 2022. They craft atmospheric, heavy compositions from the Finnish capital.
Bologna, Italy — doom metal, post-metal, and stoner metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2021, they deal in desert-baked tonality and psychedelic haze over lumbering rhythms. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Post-metal, progressive metal, and stoner band from Bath, England formed in 2019. They blend atmospheric post-metal with stoner heaviness from the historic Somerset city.
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