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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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Sludge, stoner, and doom metal band from Esbjerg, Denmark, formed in 2020, delivering heavy, low-frequency punishment from the west coast of Jutland. They combine the weight of doom with the haze of stoner metal.
Stoner, sludge, drone, and doom metal turned electronic ambient project from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2015, evolving from crushing doom into atmospheric electronic territory. Their radical stylistic shift reflects restless creative exploration.
California's Peacepipe deals in the slow and heavy currency of stoner doom — hazy, fuzz-drenched riffs that drag like tar through desert heat.
Pedrapreta launched out of Brasília in 2016 with a self-titled EP featuring five tracks of slow-burning stoner metal, recorded at 1234 Recording Studio. The band — Mickael on vocals, Bruno on guitar, Gabriel on bass, and João on drums — leans into thick riffing and hypnotic grooves rooted firmly in the Black Sabbath and desert rock traditions.
Belgian doom and stoner metal band from Leuven, started in 2007 by Adriaan De Raymaeker, Ivo Rensen, and Steven Eembeek, mixing slow heavy drone, psychedelic rock, and pounding riffs. Their releases include The Antikythera Mechanism and the limited-edition Black Moonshine EP.
Doom and stoner metal band from Myslenice, Poland, formed in 2022, delivering heavy, riff-driven stoner doom from the Carpathian foothills. They bring crushing grooves to the Lesser Poland underground.
Progressive and stoner metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2023, named after a genus of plant parasites. They blend progressive complexity with stoner metal's heavy grooves.
Pet the Preacher was a Copenhagen, Denmark hard rock trio formed in 2010 by vocalist-guitarist Christian Hede Madsen, bassist Torben Wæver Pedersen, and drummer Christian Von Larsen, mixing 1970s blues-rock, stoner metal riffs, and prog-rock arrangements into a dense, slow-burning sound. The band released two albums — The Banjo (2011) and The Cave and the Sunlight (2014) — before disbanding in August 2015. Their brief run produced a small but regarded catalog within the Danish heavy rock underground.
Doom and stoner metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2014, delivering massive, phantasmal doom and stoner metal. Over a decade of heavy grooves from the Russian capital.
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