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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)
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D Patrol is a progressive/stoner metal band from Achères, France, formed in 2020. They patrol progressive and stoner territories from the Parisian suburbs.
Daevar is a stoner/doom metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2023. Their releases including "Sub Rosa" and "Amber Eyes" deliver thick, fuzz-laden riffs and hypnotic grooves.
Dagla is a stoner metal/rock band from A Coruña, Spain, active since 2014. They deliver fuzz-soaked stoner grooves from Galicia's Atlantic coast.
Dalver is a three-piece post-metal and atmospheric stoner band from Lokeren, Belgium, whose Demo and early singles like Still Standing and As Fires Die trace a sound built on heavy atmospheric textures and the slow-burn dynamics of post-metal. The band's approach combines the weight of stoner riffing with the emotional arc of the post-metal tradition.
Chicago's Damn the Buzzards emerged in 2022 with a stoner metal sound built on fuzz-drenched riffs, heavy grooves, and the loose, hazy swagger that the genre does best. A welcome addition to the city's heavy underground, channeling desert rock energy through a Midwest filter.
Fort Madison, Iowa's Damn the Gods have been pushing slow, heavy stoner doom from the middle of the country since 2005, a two-decade run that speaks to the resilience of heavy music far from major scenes. Their sound is rooted in riff worship and the meditative pull of low tempos.
Savannah, Georgia's Damned to Earth have been wallowing in the sonic mire of stoner, sludge, and doom since 2021, conjuring a suffocating heaviness that feels bred in the swampy heat of the South. Slow, massive, and relentless.
Danakil Heat is a stoner metal/rock band from Helsinki, Finland, emerging in 2025. They channel scorching heat through stoner grooves from the Nordic capital.
Oakland's Danuta bring a punk-laced rawness to stoner metal that keeps their fuzz-heavy riffs from ever getting too comfortable. Formed in 2022, the band embodies the Bay Area underground's instinct to smash genres together and see what survives.
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