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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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Psychedelic stoner, doom metal, and shoegaze project from Viken, Norway, formed in 2022, blending dreamy shoegaze textures with heavy doom and stoner metal weight. They create a uniquely ethereal yet crushing sound.
Stoner, sludge, and doom metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2018, dealing in heavy, low-tuned riffs and crushing grooves. They bring the full weight of the doom and sludge metal tradition to the Berlin underground.
Cleveland's Pillärс (stylized with an umlaut and a grimace) combines crust punk's political bite with doom and sludge's crushing tempo, forging music as heavy as the city's industrial legacy demands.
Out of Spearfish, South Dakota — a long way from any metal scene — Pine Beetle channels the desolate Black Hills landscape into slow, sun-baked stoner sludge with teeth.
Chicago's Plague of Carcosa draws its name from Robert W. Chambers' mythos and its sound from the intersection of stoner, sludge, and doom — heavy, hazy, and haunted by something that refuses to be named.
Stoner and doom metal band with experimental tendencies from Lviv, Ukraine, formed in 2022, delivering heavy, psychedelic-tinged doom from the western Ukrainian cultural hub. They bring cosmic heaviness.
Albany's Planet Eater drag sludge and stoner weight through a metalcore framework, building slow-burning riffs into volatile, lurching explosions. Since 2016 they've carved a niche in the Northeast underground where heaviness is measured in tonnage.
Madison, Wisconsin's Plant have been sowing stoner groove since 2007, rooting their sound in thick mid-paced riffs and a low-end rumble that owes as much to swamp rock as it does to metal. Unhurried, heavy, and deliberately earthy.
Giessen's PlasmaJet fuses stoner grooves with Southern rock swagger and groove metal punch since 2015. Their Hessian university-town origins produce a surprisingly sun-baked sound more evocative of the American Deep South than Central Germany.
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