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rosemary (2023)
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Pasadena, CA doom and stoner metal band that has fully embraced the fuzz-drenched, heavy psych sound cultivated across Southern California. Their music sounds like standing in a warm, swirling darkness.
North Little Rock, AR doom and stoner metal band that devours everything in its path at a slow, unstoppable tempo. Their Arkansas-forged heaviness is deliberate, fuzz-laden, and utterly consuming.
Stoner metal band from Carouge near Geneva, Switzerland, formed in 2017. They deliver thick, fuzz-drenched riffs and psychedelic grooves rooted in the heavy traditions of stoner and desert rock.
Stoner metal band from Prato, Tuscany. Cosmotron delivers fuzzed-out, groove-heavy stoner riffs from central Italy.
Indiana stoner metal project Couchlock delivers hazy, fuzz-drenched riffs designed to plant you firmly in your seat. The music leans into repetition and warm tonal density, letting grooves breathe and expand.
Richmond, Virginia's Cough are one of the defining names in American doom and sludge metal, known for suffocating low-tuned riffs and punishing tempos. Their albums feel like descending into a tar pit — slow, dark, and inescapable.
Sludge-stoner act from the Netherlands, formed in 2024. Cough Syrup with the Goths — a memorably eccentric name — delivers heavy, haze-drenched sludge.
Death-stoner metal band from Tampere, Finland, active since 2012. They merge death metal aggression with stoner metal's heavy grooves.
Reno band Countress occupy an unusual space between metalcore and stoner metal, mixing heavy downtuned groove with the hooky structures of melodic metalcore. The combination gives their sound a hazy, desert-road quality.
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