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Featured Album
Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Ghent-based progressive sludge metal band blending stoner rock, grunge, and progressive elements since 2017. Their lyrics explore space, solitude, and defiance as metaphors for melancholia, delivered through heavy riffing, proggy melodies, and grungy vocals.
Russian sludge/stoner/doom metal band from Samara, formed in 2024 and delivering triple-threat heaviness from the Volga region. Their name channels the slow, deliberate character of their doom-laden approach.
Portuguese stoner/doom metal band from the Lisbon district, delivering fuzz-drenched heaviness since 2013. Their Portuguese name channels regional character through crushing stoner doom grooves.
Minnesota's Let It Breathe lace stoner rock's fuzz-drenched groove with genuine doom heaviness, a Mankato outfit that sounds like a blizzard rolling in off the prairie — slow, thick, and inevitable.
Richmond, Virginia's Letcher have been hauling stoner and doom metal out of the city's fertile heavy underground since 2006, their sound as weathered and slow-burning as the James River at dusk.
German stoner/doom metal band from Passau, delivering colossal heaviness since 2019 with releases including 'King in Yellow' and 'Colossal War.' Their doom-oriented approach channels crushing riffs and atmospheric weight through a dark, ritualistic lens.
Finnish stoner metal band from Lahti, delivering fuzz-drenched heaviness since 2014. Their name captures the dark, oppressive weight of their stoner metal approach.
London-based sludge/stoner/doom metal band formed in 2025, delivering triple-threat heaviness. Their sound merges sludge metal's abrasiveness, stoner rock's hazy grooves, and doom's crushing weight.
Swedish progressive/stoner metal band from Umea, active since 2005 and blending technical ambition with stoner groove for two decades. Their approach channels prog complexity through the hazy lens of stoner metal.
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