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Divine (2024)
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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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Razorblend is a stoner metal band from Tampere, Finland's major inland city, formed in 2015. The band delivers heavy, fuzz-driven stoner metal from the city between two lakes.
Stoner metal band from Dublin, Ireland, active since 2010. Their surreal name accompanies hazy, riff-heavy stoner metal from the Irish capital.
Fort Worth's Realm Drifter crawled out of the Texas heat in 2022 dealing in stoner-doom that stretches riffs into long, resin-thick passages and anchors them with the weight of the Lone Star sun. It's psychedelic, slow, and heavy in the way that only bands steeped in the Texas desert-rock tradition manage.
Stoner rock/metal band from Alkmaar, the Netherlands, with roots dating to 2005. Two decades of hazy, riff-heavy stoner music from the North Holland city.
Thunderous Stoner / Sludge Metal from Plainview.
Red Dust is a stoner metal/rock band from Niort in western France, formed in 2024. The band channels fuzz-laden stoner metal from the Deux-Sèvres department.
Red Eye is a psychedelic doom/stoner metal band from Antequera in Málaga province, Andalusia, Spain, formed in 2019. The band channels hazy, fuzz-laden doom from the ancient Andalusian town beneath the limestone plateau of El Torcal.
Red Eyed Cult is a stoner/doom metal band from Norwich in Norfolk, England, formed in 2023. The band delivers fuzz-drenched doom from the medieval city in East Anglia.
Ivano-Frankivsk stoner metal act formed in 2019, delivering fuzz-drenched heaviness from the Carpathian foothills of western Ukraine. Their warm, groove-laden approach channels the hypnotic weight of the stoner tradition.
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