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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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Post-metal and doom band from Newport, South Wales, formed in November 2016 by ex-members of Tradish and Desalvo. Their 2021 album Thy Kingdom Kong features seven extended compositions ranging from five to sixteen minutes, with additional synth work from Adam Wrench of HAAST.
Pushing the boundaries of doom metal and stoner metal, this Russian outfit from Moscow has been refining their craft since 2025. Their sound hinges on amp-worshipping heaviness filtered through a THC-infused consciousness, delivered with ruthless intent.
Stoner/doom metal band from London, active since 2017 and dwelling in the heavy, fuzzed-out territory where stoner and doom converge. Their sound emphasizes massive distorted riffs and hypnotic, repetitive grooves.
A product of the tiny nation at the crossroads of Germanic and Slavic metal, this Novo Mesto-based sludge metal and stoner metal act channels desert-baked tonality and psychedelic haze over lumbering rhythms. Active since 2017, their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Stoner/doom metal band from Leeds, formed in 2025 and channeling the cosmic themes suggested by their name into heavy, fuzz-laden doom. Their sound blends stoner metal's psychedelic haze with doom's crushing weight.
When Kotiomkin emerged in 2014 from Martinsicuro (Teramo), they brought with them a sound rooted in doom metal, progressive metal, and stoner metal — all genre-bending ambition that refuses easy categorization. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Opole, Poland — doom metal and stoner metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2011, 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.
Stoner/doom metal band from Greenock on Scotland's Clyde coast, formed in 2020 and named with a nod to German industrial aesthetics. Their sound merges stoner metal's groove-driven fuzz with doom's ponderous heaviness.
Part of the frozen north that birthed an entire genre, this act channels stoner metal with a focus on fuzz-drenched riffs and hypnotic, groove-laden repetition. Formed in 2012, based in Bergen, the results are heavier and more inventive than the genre tag might suggest.
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