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Divine (2024)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fairfax, Virginia's Engineered Extinction blends stoner and doom metal into thick, hazy compositions that rumble with low-end menace since their 2023 formation. Their name hints at their thematic preoccupations — slow, deliberate, and terminal.
Akron's Enhailer drifts through the hazy overlap of stoner, doom, and sludge, conjuring thick, feedback-drenched riffs and narcotic tempos suited to the Rust Belt's industrial melancholy.
Formed in Saint Paul in 2025, Enigmatus is a freshly-surfaced presence in the Midwest sludge and stoner doom scene, conjuring heavy, haze-filled sonic landscapes from the frozen north.
Mesa's Enirva conjures slow-burning stoner doom out of the Arizona desert, layering sun-cracked riffs and dragging tempos into the kind of heavy that feels as inevitable as the heat.
Asheville's Enoch draws on the Blue Ridge Mountain town's fertile heavy underground, blending stoner warmth, sludge filth, and doom's glacial weight into a sound that feels deeply rooted in the Appalachian soil.
Stoner/groove metal act from Hamm in Germany's Westphalia region, delivering heavy, rhythmic compositions since 2005. Their Spanish name, meaning "angry," captures the simmering aggression beneath their groove-laden stoner metal.
Practitioners of doom metal and stoner metal, this Polish outfit from Warsaw has been refining their craft since 2024. Their sound hinges on amp-worshipping heaviness filtered through a THC-infused consciousness, delivered with militant precision.
New Haven's Entierro began as a stoner/doom outfit before steering toward heavier traditional metal, a trajectory that reflects a band constantly testing what it means to be heavy — slow and hazy one era, riff-forward and purposeful the next. Active since 2014.
Seattle's Entmoot — named after the deliberate gathering of Tolkien's Ents — moves with measured, crushing intention through stoner and sludge metal, building monolithic riffs that reward patience. A young band with an ancient weight to their sound.
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