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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Stoner/doom metal band from Tallinn, active since 2012 and delivering fuzz-laden, psychedelia-tinged heaviness from Estonia's capital. Their cannabis-referencing name fits their laid-back yet crushingly heavy approach.
Moscow-based doom and stoner metal band featuring former members of Doppelganger, built around poet and musician Alex Long (Klimov) and drummer Andrey Malinovsky. Their 2024 album Inside The Flooded Tomb, self-described as 'the incarnation of old and real doom METAL,' was released as a limited run of 150 CDs with tracks exploring mystical Karelian landscapes.
Doom/stoner metal band from Manchester, formed in 2019 and channeling the low-end heaviness and hypnotic repetition that define both genres. Their sound dwells in the space between crushing doom riffs and the fuzzed-out groove of stoner metal.
North London sludge/stoner metal trio formed in 2023, creating what they describe as "soundscapes of agony and of a withering existence." Their 2024 self-titled album features sprawling tracks like "A Feast on Bark" and "Without Face," recorded at Rockaway Studio in Manor House.
Formed in Morgantown, West Virginia in 1994, Karma to Burn built their reputation on relentlessly heavy, largely wordless instrumental stoner rock that placed groove over theatrics. After a label dispute with Roadrunner Records forced them to briefly use a vocalist on their 1997 self-titled debut, the trio returned to purely instrumental territory on Wild, Wonderful Purgatory (1999) and Almost Heathen (2001), the latter widely cited alongside Kyuss and Monster Magnet as a defining document of the genre. Following a hiatus, the band reunited and released Appalachian Incantation (2010) and V (2011).
Stoner/sludge metal band from Caen in Normandy, active since 2008 and delivering nearly two decades of fuzz-drenched heaviness. Their long tenure in the French stoner metal scene marks them as veterans of the genre.
When Kaskaveil emerged in 2019 from Ponta Delgada, they brought with them a sound rooted in sludge metal and stoner metal — all desert-baked tonality and psychedelic haze over lumbering rhythms. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Kyiv, Ukraine — sludge metal and stoner metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2017, they deal in desert-baked tonality and psychedelic haze over lumbering rhythms. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Stubbornly devoted to the riff, this doom metal, sludge metal, and stoner metal act from Ascoli Piceno traffics in fuzz-drenched riffs and hypnotic, groove-laden repetition. Since 2016, they've built a catalog that reflects Italy's underrated but thriving metal community.
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