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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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Doom and stoner metal band from Le Mans, France, formed in 2013, delivering deliberate, crushing heaviness from the Sarthe department. They bring the weight of doom to the city famous for motorsport.
Progressive stoner metal and rock band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2017, exploring the heavier side of psychedelic rock through a progressive metal lens. They deliver expansive, riff-driven compositions with a stoner edge from the Spanish capital.
Stoner and sludge metal band from Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 2022, delivering heavy, primal grooves from the Scottish capital. They bring crushing stoner-sludge to Edinburgh's vibrant heavy music scene.
Stoner and doom metal band from London, England, formed in 2016, dealing in heavy, low-tuned riffs and crushing grooves. They contribute to London's extensive stoner and doom metal community.
Probot is the brainchild of Dave Grohl — a sprawling heavy metal superproject that united some of the most iconic voices in underground metal history, including Lemmy Kilmister, Max Cavalera, Wino, and members of Discharge and Sepultura. Operating out of Alexandria, Virginia and drawing from doom, stoner, groove, and classic heavy metal, the project stands as a reverent and thunderous love letter to the genres that shaped Grohl long before Nirvana.
Heavy, sludge, and stoner metal band from Gdansk, Poland, active since 2007, delivering nearly two decades of heavy, sludge-laden grooves from the Baltic coast. They are veterans of the Pomeranian heavy music scene.
Psychedelic doom and stoner metal band from Leicester, England, formed in 2013, channeling cosmic visions through hazy, heavy psychedelic doom. They bring otherworldly, Saturn-worshipping heaviness to the East Midlands.
Psiconauta is a sludge and doom duo from Pernambuco, Brazil, consisting of Anderson Moss on vocals and guitars and Ad Luna on drums, active since 2012 and self-described as an "original Brazilian Sludge/Doom entity." The band released the two-track "Hunting Day" EP in December 2018, recorded and mixed at Pólvora Studio, and contributed the 14-minute track "Deep Mantra (Prajnaparamita Mantra)" to the Doomed & Stoned Latinoamerica Vol. I compilation in February 2018.
Fort Myers, Florida's Psychic Dose traffics in psychedelic stoner-doom — slow, narcotic riffing saturated in fuzz and reverb, evoking sun-scorched Southern haze with a heavy, lysergic weight that builds across their songs.
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