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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Deadroads is a stoner metal/rock band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2026. They channel desert rock grooves and heavy, fuzz-laden stoner riffs.
Deadsmoke is a doom and sludge metal band from Bolzano, Italy, formed in 2016. Known for amplifiers buried in distortion and hypnotic down-tuned riffs, the band explores isolation and existential dread across albums like 'Mountain Legacy' and 'Forest of the Damned.'
Denver's DeadVessel navigate the intersection of stoner, groove, and progressive metal with the high-altitude confidence of a band comfortable pushing ideas in multiple directions at once. Formed in 2015, they blend head-nodding heaviness with genuine structural ambition.
Kingsport, Tennessee's Deafened occupy a gloomy corner where depressive black metal, stoner doom, and ambient drift converge — music that sounds like the Appalachian hills turning dark around you. Since 2022, the project has leaned hard into desolation.
Newton, New Jersey's Death Catapult sling slow-burning stoner doom at the audience like boulders through fog, trading speed for weight and atmosphere. Formed in 2025, they draw from the heaviest end of fuzz-soaked doom and psychedelic rock.
Virginia Beach's Death Harvest tend a crop of sun-scorched stoner doom, wringing heavy psych fuzz and oppressive tempos out of the coastal Virginia underground since 2022. Their riffs sprawl and crush in equal measure, conjuring images of flat farmland and burning sky.
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania's Death Rising blend groove metal's heaviness with stoner metal's hazy, slow-burning swagger — a combination that hits like a tire iron wrapped in smoke. Rolling slow and heavy through the Pennsylvania hills since 2021.
Decaen is a stoner/doom/sludge metal project conceived by Bosnian-born guitarist and vocalist Haris Dekanovic, now based in Germany, who draws on blues and grunge as foundation for heavy riff-based compositions. The 2022 debut No Rest for the Slaves — seven tracks including Forest Demon and Cosmic Stone — marks the project's first official release under his solo banner.
Huntington progressive/stoner metal act Deckard drifts through heavy psychedelia with a slow, deliberate weight that reflects West Virginia's Appalachian surroundings. Since 2012, they've built a reputation on riff-first songwriting that rewards patience as much as volume.
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