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Divine (2024)
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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)
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Denver's Hashtronaut have been navigating the outer reaches of stoner and doom metal since 2020, blending cosmic heaviness with riff-forward songwriting. Their sound evokes weightlessness achieved through sheer volume — fuzz as propulsion.
Conjured in 2023 in the Appalachian foothills of Franklin, North Carolina, HashWitch brews stoner metal with a distinctly earthy, ritualistic character. The mountain setting seeps into the tone — slow grooves with a pagan undertow.
Vancouver, Washington's Hauler load up on stoner and sludge metal, riding massive, distortion-soaked riffs at a pace that feels like a freight train operating at half speed — deliberate, heavy, and impossible to ignore.
Haunted Crucifix is a stoner/doom metal band from Volos, Greece, active since 2021 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.
Stoner metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2020. Their thick, fuzzy riffs and groove-laden compositions deliver the hypnotic weight of stoner metal from the German capital.
California stoner/doom outfit Hawnt deal in slow, narcotic riffs draped in reverb and psychedelic haze, the kind of music that turns a room dim and heavy. Active since 2015, their approach leans into the occult-tinged desert rock lineage without losing its own ghostly character.
Minneapolis stoner/doom outfit Haze Gazer emerged in 2021 with a sound that splits the difference between desert-baked fuzz rock and proper doom metal weight, its slow tempos and thick atmosphere shaped by the long, dark Minnesota winters as much as any California sun. The result is northern heavy psych at its most enveloping.
Baltimore's Haze Mage conjure stoner/doom with a genuine sorcerer's patience — unhurried riffs stack over glacial rhythms while the vocals drift through the fog. Active since 2017, they're part of a vibrant Maryland heavy scene that has long punched above its weight.
Operating from Stockholm, this stoner/doom metal/rock project has been shaping harsh sound since 2017. Slow, deliberate riffing and suffocating atmospheres form the foundation of their craft.
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