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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)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Southern/stoner metal band from Nice on the French Riviera, formed in 2024 and delivering sun-drenched, groove-heavy compositions. Their Mediterranean location adds warmth to the typically American southern metal aesthetic.
A product of Ukraine's battle-tested metal underground, this Chernihiv-based doom metal, sludge metal, and stoner metal act channels desert-baked tonality and psychedelic haze over lumbering rhythms. Active since 2019, their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Copenhagen stoner metal/rock outfit formed in 2021, whose self-described sound features "soaring riffs and infinite echoes" transporting listeners into psychedelic, otherworldly territory. Their zombie-inspired ethos channels heavy psychedelic metal with a horror-tinged aesthetic.
Doom/stoner metal band from Jyvaskyla in central Finland, formed in 2022 and delivering crushing, fuzz-drenched heaviness from the Finnish lake district. Their Finnish name meaning "longing" or "nostalgia" captures the melancholic weight of their doom.
Stoner metal/rock band from Kotka on Finland's southern coast, active since 2015 and delivering fuzz-laden grooves from the Gulf of Finland. Their Maori-derived name meaning "glutton" adds an exotic dimension to their Nordic stoner metal.
Stavanger-based doom metal and stoner metal act, active since 2015 delivering wah-soaked leads and bass-heavy grooves in the tradition of Kyuss and Sleep. Rooted in Norway's storied extreme metal lineage, their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
Stoner/doom duo Kalgon arrived out of Asheville, North Carolina in 2024, planting themselves in a city long synonymous with heavy, riff-driven underground music. Their sound is thick and slow-moving, built on the fuzz-soaked foundations that have made Asheville a haven for this kind of music.
Crafting their sound since 2013, this Eindhoven Sludge Metal and Stoner Metal outfit delivers fuzz-drenched riffs and hypnotic, groove-laden repetition. Their place within Holland's dense concentration of metal talent speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Denver's Kamru brew thick stoner/doom metal in the tradition of the Colorado high country, where the altitude seems to slow everything down to the right speed. Formed in 2022, they've been carving out a place in a city with a rich legacy of heavy, riff-forward underground music.
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