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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Brooklyn's Grass take the stoner metal template and run it through New York City noise and nervous energy, ending up somewhere perpetually hazy and unresolved. A different beast from their Philly namesake, they've been tilling that fertile sonic ground since 2016.
Grave Disgrace is a stoner/doom metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2011 and delivering over a decade of heavy, fuzz-laden riffs from Russia's cultural capital. The project channels crushing doom through a stoner haze.
Stoner/sludge/doom metal act from Cherkasy launched in 2025, delivering fuzz-drenched heaviness from central Ukraine. Their triple-pronged approach channels the crushing weight of all three subgenres.
Gravel Grower is a stoner/doom metal band from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2020. They deliver fuzz-laden stoner doom from the Alsatian capital on the Rhine, blending heavy riffs with the slow-burning grooves of the genre.
Graveslime is a stoner/sludge metal band from Reykjavik, active since 2003. Over two decades they have delivered heavy, sludge-drenched stoner metal from the Icelandic capital, making them one of the island's most enduring heavy acts.
Graveyhard is a sludge/stoner metal band from Pontremoli in the Massa-Carrara province of Tuscany, formed in 2018. They deliver heavy stoner sludge from the Lunigiana region at the Tuscan-Ligurian border.
Gravity Well is a stoner/doom metal band from Belfast, formed in 2019. They deliver massive, riff-heavy stoner doom from the Northern Irish capital.
Gravson is a blackened stoner metal and melodic hardcore band from Närkeskogen, Sweden, active since 2019 and blending the darkness of black metal with stoner grooves and hardcore energy. The project delivers a unique hybrid from the Swedish forests.
Out of Mandeville, Louisiana, Grayskull fuse the hypnotic crawl of doom with stoner metal's fuzz-drenched warmth, conjuring something heavy and slow enough to sink into the swamp. Since 2021 they've been stacking riffs that belong in the dark.
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