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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Chicago sludge and doom metal band founded in 2016, crafting dense, slow-burning compositions in the tradition of Midwestern heavy music that values atmosphere as much as volume.
Stone Eater is an atmospheric sludge metal band from St. Louis, Missouri, formed in 2016, crafting dense, slow-burning soundscapes that layer oppressive heaviness with an expansive, melancholic atmosphere.
Stone Gnome is a stoner/sludge metal band from San Francisco, California, formed in 2021, fusing the Bay Area's history of heavy psych with grimy sludge textures and psychedelic guitar work.
Houston power trio delivering Sabbath-style doom and savage sludge. Signed to Ripple Music.
Gothenburg's Stone of Duna pair sludge and stoner metal from Sweden's metal capital since 2023. Their Dune-referencing name channels the desert sci-fi mythology of Frank Herbert into compositions of thick, sandworm-heavy fuzz.
Stone Ritual is a sludge/stoner/doom metal band from Redford Charter Township, Michigan, formed in 2015, weaving together the region's industrial heaviness with slow, ceremonial tempos and filthy, feedback-soaked tones.
Stone Sloth is a doom/sludge metal band from Santa Cruz, California, formed in 2016, embracing deliberately slow tempos and down-tuned riffs that capture the heavier side of the Northern California coast's underground scene.
Stone Titan is a sludge metal band from South Windsor, Connecticut, formed in 2012, delivering punishing low-end heaviness and abrasive, feedback-drenched textures characteristic of the Northeast's sludge underground.
Stoneburner is a doom/sludge metal band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2020, channeling the heavy, churning intensity of the Pacific Northwest underground into slow, smoke-blackened riffage.
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