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Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Herndon, Virginia's Druid Stone formed in 2021 playing stoner and doom metal with a noise rock edge that keeps their sound from settling into pure genre comfort. The Northern Virginia suburb isn't a traditional heavy metal hub, which may explain the band's willingness to let noise and texture intrude on the expected fuzz-and-riff formula.
Druids is a doom and stoner metal band from Cremona, Italy, formed in 2009. The project delivers heavy, ritualistic doom and stoner metal from the Lombardy underground.
Drunk Diver is a grindcore, sludge, and stoner metal band from Lviv, Ukraine, formed in 2013. The project blends grinding extremity with sludge and stoner weight.
Drunken Crocodiles is a sludge and stoner metal band from Parma, Italy, formed in 2013. The project channels heavy, fuzzed-out sludge and stoner riffs from the Emilia-Romagna scene.
Dryweed is a stoner metal/rock band from Seville, Spain, formed in 2021. They deliver dry, sun-baked stoner grooves from Andalusia.
Dræng is a sludge/stoner metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2024. They deliver heavy, fuzz-soaked sludge from the German capital.
Duckhunters is a stoner/doom metal band from Brest, France, active since 2013. They hunt through heavy stoner and doom from Brittany's westernmost point.
Heavy Doom / Stoner Metal / Rock from Austin.
Dull Eyes is a stoner metal/hardcore band from Düsseldorf, Germany, active since 2013. They merge stoner metal's hazy grooves with hardcore's raw intensity.
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