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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Stoner/doom metal and grunge act from Berlin, Germany, blending heavy, fuzz-drenched riffs with nineties alternative rock influences since 2012. Their tongue-in-cheek name reflects a laid-back attitude that permeates their groove-heavy, smoke-filled sound.
Bergamo's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this stoner metal unit is among them — wielding wah-soaked leads and bass-heavy grooves in the tradition of Kyuss and Sleep. Uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
El Árbol de la Horca is a Santiago-based extreme metal band that debuted in 2025 with the EP Abismo Inevitable, a five-track release combining crushing sludge doom, stoner heaviness, and bursts of grindcore intensity. The band describes their sound as slow, heavy, and miserable, punctuated by occasional injections of merciless brutality.
Stoner metal and desert rock band from Antwerp, Belgium, paying tribute to the ancient gods of the riff with stoner fuzz, rolling grooves, and raw energy. Emerging from the earlier project Oude God, their 2022 demo features three tracks of heavy, sun-baked riffing.
Straddling the line between doom metal and stoner metal, this Swedish actfrom Karlstad fuses wah-soaked leads and bass-heavy grooves in the tradition of Kyuss and Sleep into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2013, and uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Philadelphia's Elderwyrm crawls through the fertile ground between stoner and doom metal since forming in 2022, the serpentine name matching a sound built on slow, coiling heaviness and fuzz-thick riffs. Classic Philly grit runs underneath the haze.
Doom and stoner metal band from Mikkeli, Finland formed in 2017. They bring fuzzy, heavy riffs from the lake district of eastern Finland.
Stamford, Connecticut's Electric Beast weaves together progressive doom and stoner heaviness into long, sprawling tracks that build slowly before collapsing under their own weight — a band for the patient and the stonerd alike.
Cincinnati's Electric Citizen bring a vintage sensibility to heavy and stoner metal, anchored by soulful vocals and riffs that feel pulled from a forgotten corner of the 1970s rock underground — formed in 2014 but sounding timeless.
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