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Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Stoner Metal/Rock outfit rooted in Bologna, channeling blistering underground intensity since 2023. Tight compositions and aggressive delivery characterize their particular approach.
Heavy power metal outfit from Liverpool, active since 2008. Nearly two decades of epic compositions from one of England's most legendary music cities have built a catalog of soaring, powerful metal.
Based in Venice, this hard rock/stoner/doom metal project has been a fixture of Italy's underground since 2013. Their work explores the genre's darkest corners through immense heaviness.
Stoner/sludge/doom metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, active since 2011. Their crushing blend of stoner groove, sludge weight, and doom heaviness creates an immersive sonic assault.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee's Hooch Head blend stoner metal's hazy warmth with sludge metal's corrosive weight, arriving in 2018 with the sound of cheap liquor and busted amplifiers. Tennessee grime runs deep in every track.
Hoodoo Ritual is a stoner/doom metal band from Malmö, Sweden, active since 2018 and delivering crushing, fuzz-laden heaviness where doom's oppressive weight meets stoner metal's hazy grooves. The project channels low-end power and psychedelic atmosphere.
HoofKnuckle is a stoner/heavy metal band from Leeds, United Kingdom, active since 2018 and delivering fuzz-laden, groove-heavy riffs through a haze of overdriven amplification. The project channels the riff-worshipping spirit of the genre.
From Peterborough, New Hampshire, Hookermouth have been crafting grimy stoner-sludge metal since 2014, leaning into fuzz-saturated grooves and a stubbornly filthy aesthetic. Not much subtlety, and none is required.
Stoner/doom metal band from Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, active since 2010, blending doomy stoner grunge metal into a fuzzy, aggressive package. Their album Marked delivers ten tracks of sludge-soaked heaviness across forty-four minutes of relentless riffing.
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