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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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A recent arrival from Salt Lake City, Fabler has been crafting heavy, earth-bound doom and stoner metal since 2023 — slow riffs steeped in desert haze that reward patient listeners.
Phoenix's Face the Flames lean into the slow and the heavy, crafting stoner-doom that trades the desert city's relentless heat into fuzz-soaked riffs and brooding, patient tempos since 2017.
Faceless Empress is a stoner heavy metal band from Valparaíso, Chile, formed in 2022, drawing comparisons to Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and desert rock acts like Kyuss and Dozer. The four-piece released their debut EP The Escapist in August 2024, produced and mixed at Magia Negra Studios.
Facing Forward is a stoner metal/rock band from Paris, France, formed in 2011. The band delivers heavy stoner grooves from the French capital.
Evansville, Indiana's Faerie Ring has been blending doom and stoner metal since 2018, bringing heavy, psych-laced riffs and an occult-folk sensibility to a part of the Midwest not always associated with the heavier end of the spectrum.
Fort Collins, Colorado's Falcon Haptics has been delivering stoner metal and heavy rock since 2020 — a city at the base of the Rockies that pairs well with the slow, weed-hazed enormity the genre demands.
Metairie, Louisiana's Fall from Grace leans into stoner and doom metal with the low-end density and swampy atmosphere that the Gulf South does better than most, a band formed in 2018 in the shadow of New Orleans.
Los Angeles stoner metal act Fallen Suns have been letting their riffs breathe since 2016, drawing on Southern California's long tradition of fuzz-soaked heavy rock and desert-influenced slowburn. Their music moves at the pace of heat — unhurried, thick, and designed to expand in open space.
Falling Giants is a stoner/sludge/doom band from Ancona, Italy, self-described as 'filthy stoner sludge.' Their 2023 debut Whirlwind Hymns sprawls across seven tracks of low-tuned, atmospheric heaviness, with songs regularly stretching past ten minutes into droning, meditative territory.
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