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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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Vienna stoner metal five-piece rallying behind "buzz, booze, and heavy music," with releases including their V album and Demo EP. Their sound leans into fuzz-laden riffs and high-energy live performance.
San Jose, California's Kevel have been in the heavy fuzz game since 2014, pairing stoner rock's psychedelic warmth with doom metal's glacial pace for a sound that's hazy, heavy, and fully hypnotic.
Progressive/stoner metal and rock band from Lille, formed in 2025 and blending progressive complexity with fuzz-drenched stoner grooves. Their geological name suggests the foundational, bedrock heaviness of their sound.
Heavy/stoner metal and rock band from Athens, formed in 2021 and blending heavy metal muscle with the fuzzed-out groove of stoner rock. Their sound carries the sun-baked energy of Athens filtered through thick distortion and driving riffs.
Stoner metal band from Manchester, active since 2017 and channeling the fuzzed-out, riff-heavy sound that defines the stoner metal genre. Their approach emphasizes hypnotic grooves and massive distortion.
Milan, Italy — heavy metal and stoner metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2022, they deal in desert-baked tonality and psychedelic haze over lumbering rhythms. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Midlands sludge/stoner metal trio from Stafford, formed in 2020, featuring Karl Slater on guitar and vocals, Tom Wilson on drums, and Nathan Beardmore on bass. Self-described as "an experiment in sludge, stoner, post-metal, thrash and doom," their releases Cursed Hymns and Widowmaker blend multiple heavy subgenres into a unified assault.
Fresh out of Asheville, North Carolina in 2025, Killiad brew sludge, stoner, and doom into something slow-boiled and heavy as wet earth. Asheville's fertile heavy underground provides the perfect conditions for this kind of deliberate, bone-deep metal.
The Portuguese city of Barcelos serves as headquarters for this heavy metal and stoner metal operation, whose arsenal includes amp-worshipping heaviness filtered through a THC-infused consciousness. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
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