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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Fort Collins, Colorado stoner metal project whose 2021 demo The Heavy Ones captures rough-hewn, radiation-tinged fuzz from the foothills of the Rockies.
Atomic Trip channels doom, sludge, and stoner metal from Lyon since 2017, creating psychedelic heavy music from France's gastronomic capital. Their name promises exactly the kind of mind-altering sonic journey their heavy grooves deliver.
AttaXic is a four-piece groove and stoner metal band formed in 2015 in Dobrich, Bulgaria, later relocating to Sofia. Their album "Blackout Second" showcases their approach of combining fast-paced rhythms with crushing slow passages, described by the band as "giving chaos a shape."
Koprivnica's Atum craft heavy grooves that blend stoner and groove metal, named after the ancient Egyptian creator deity. Since 2011, they've been generating riff-heavy, psychedelic-tinged heaviness from northern Croatia.
Seattle NWOTHM and stoner metal outfit named after the Twin Peaks character. Three releases since 2014 including Devil's Bell and Pure Heavy deliver thick, groove-laden metal from the city David Lynch made synonymous with Pacific Northwest darkness.
Greenville, South Carolina stoner metal project whose 2023 debut Thousand Petals brings organic, blooming imagery to fuzzy heaviness. Upstate South Carolina's contribution to the stoner metal garden.
Washington, DC stoner metal project whose 2012 self-titled EP channels the alchemical ouroboros through heavy grooves. Capital-city fuzz worship with mythological aspirations.
Cincinnati power metal project whose 2015 single — featuring a collaboration with Dr. Space — blends cosmic exploration with mythological reference. Echoes Of Mount Ida reaches from ancient Troy to the stars.
Aviendha creates doom and stoner metal from Bergen since 2020, named after a character from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. Their fantasy-literary identity drives heavy, riff-worshipping compositions from the fjord city.
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