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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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New Orleans stoner metal and Southern heavy rock outfit whose name blends automotive power with chemical enhancement. Crescent City heaviness built on the same foundation of groove and intoxication that fuels NOLA's legendary sludge scene.
Zagreb's A Gram Trip deliver heavy doses of doom, sludge, and stoner metal with a name that plays on their Croatian capital's identity. Since 2021, they've crafted a thick, groove-laden sound that embodies the spirit of the riff.
Aathma is a stoner and doom metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2009, whose extensive catalog includes The Call of Shiva, Decline Towers of Silence, Deadly Lake, Avesta, and Dust from a Dark Sun. The band's thematic range spans Eastern spirituality, environmental desolation, and Zoroastrian mythology, reflected in album titles that draw from diverse cultural and philosophical traditions.
Abel Blood is a stoner metal and rock band from New Hampshire. Their 2023 full-length "Arrival of the Waves" delivers nine tracks of riff-heavy, groove-laden stoner metal with a hazy, oceanic atmosphere.
Aberdar are a stoner metal band from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose three-album discography — Kolos, The Cult of the Naked Snail, and THE SUN — moves through the hazy, riff-heavy tradition of desert and stoner rock. Their sound is built on downtuned, fuzz-soaked guitar work and a gravitational low-end that connects them to the European stoner metal scene's love of sustained heaviness.
Aberrancy has crafted stoner and sludge metal from Piła in Greater Poland since 1991, a remarkably early origin for a style that barely existed at the time. Over three decades, they have evolved alongside the genres they helped pioneer in the Polish underground.
Aboleth is a stoner metal and rock band from Los Angeles, California. Their 2018 full-length "Benthos" delivers ten tracks of heavy, riff-worshipping stoner metal drenched in the low-end rumble of Southern California.
Aborted Jalapeno delivers death metal, groove metal, and stoner metal from Stourbridge in the West Midlands since 2021, their absurdist name bringing dark humor to their genre-crossing heaviness. Their Black Country origins feed a distinctly working-class approach to extreme metal.
Abrahma emerged from the ashes of Parisian band Alcohsonic in 2011, becoming one of the torchbearers of French heavy rock on the international scene. Their psychedelic doom addresses mental health and dark conditions across albums like "In Time for the Last Rays of Light," blending stoner grooves with spiritual and occult themes.
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