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Jegulja is a rock and metal band from Ljubljana, Slovenia, featuring a baritone guitar-driven sound with multiple albums including Anguilla Guerrilla and Exit Sandman. The three-piece has been active since at least 2013, cycling through several drummers while maintaining their heavy, low-tuned approach to Slovenian underground rock.
Jena is a southern metal band from Brescia in northern Italy, formed in 2013 and describing themselves as a southern metal band from northern Italy. After nearly dissolving in 2018, they reconstituted with a new lineup and have since released Graboid (2021) and Outlaw (2023), delivering groove-heavy, riff-driven southern metal.
Jheronimus Bosch were a progressive/stoner metal band from Pilar, Buenos Aires, founded in 2003 by vocalist and guitarist Lautaro Lunadei and bassist Alejandro Oteiza, with guitarist Ignacio Cruz and drummer Jorge Vega completing the definitive lineup. The band released their self-titled EP in 2008 as well as a subsequent album titled "Ø," both independently. They were active until around 2014 when the band split up.
JJax is the solo project of Julien Jacquemond from Chambery, France, a veteran of several metal bands including Inner Visions, Further Dimension, and Dead Season. His solo work channels his decades of experience as a vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist into original metal compositions with strong melodic hooks.
Jointhugger is a Norwegian heavy psychedelic doom rock band active since 2012, self-described as hashtronauts of the heavy playing cosmic, psychosonic doom rock straight from the fjords. Their trilogy of albums including Surrounded By Vultures (2021), composed by Nico Munkvold and recorded live at Stone Bone Cross Studio, channels deep fuzz and occult heaviness.
Spartanburg, South Carolina's Juggernaut lean hard into the regional flavor of Southern metal, fused with the slow, hazy density of stoner metal — humid, heavy, and dragged down to just the right tempo.
St. Louis Park, Minnesota's Juggernaut bring a northern take on stoner metal — fuzzed-out riffs and hazy grooves from a state whose long winters seem purpose-built for heavy, slow-burning music.
Jumping Jack is a French stoner rock trio from Nantes, delivering organic melodies built on a heavy rock wall since their debut Cows and Whisky (2009). They gained international exposure through a 25-date European tour in 2013 and have shared stages with Orange Goblin, Nashville Pussy, and Mustasch across three albums.
Cincinnati's Junior Crime Fighters have been pairing stoner fuzz with doom's crawling tempos since 2014, building a sound out of Ohio's rich heavy underground that rewards patience with crushing, satisfying payoffs.
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