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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Austin doom/stoner metal. Massive fuzz-drenched riffs.
Stoner/doom metal band from Rovaniemi, Finland — the city on the Arctic Circle — active since 2010 with a demo featuring tracks like Weedemon and Green Mind. Their heavy, riff-driven approach delivers stoner doom from one of the world's most northerly metal scenes.
Nantes stoner metal act formed in 2020, delivering fuzz-laden grooves from the Loire-Atlantique capital. Their autumnal name suits the hazy, unhurried quality of their riff-driven stoner metal.
German stoner metal/rock band from Bamberg, delivering fuzz-drenched grooves since 2019. Their playful, cephalopod-inspired name adds quirky character to their Franconian stoner approach.
Rooted in the death metal world before pivoting toward Black Sabbath-worship and psychedelic stoner rock, Octopus Head — originally called Octopus from 2012 — developed a dense sound that threads doom heaviness through progressive and psychedelic textures across releases like Neptune and the three-track Jahaz. Their live album Depressed, but Alive on Abraxas Records captures the raw energy of their catalog, while the 2018 single "Noonday Demon" — inspired by Andrew Solomon's book on depression — showcased the band at their most thematically and sonically focused.
Stoner/doom/sludge metal band from Ternopil, western Ukraine, formed in 2024. Their triple-genre approach delivers maximum heaviness from the Galician city.
Toulon stoner/thrash metal act from the French Riviera, active since 2016. Their petroleum-tinged name suits a style that blends stoner rock's dirty grooves with thrash metal's velocity, all baked under the Provencal sun.
Sudbury's Old Man Lizard cranks out fuzz-drenched stoner and sludge metal with a freewheeling, jam-oriented approach that channels the spirit of the desert rock tradition. Their thick, distorted grooves and laid-back swagger recall Kyuss and Weedeater.
Old Quasar draw from the fuzz-heavy well of Black Sabbath and Kyuss while working in a more reflective, introspective thread courtesy of vocalist and lyricist Daniel Vitório, whose lyrics take cues from Henry Thoreau's writing. Their self-titled debut, a five-track EP recorded in a single weekend at Casa 39 studio, establishes a dense, doom-tinged stoner sound.
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