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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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Red Fountain is a psychedelic doom/stoner metal band from Alicante on the Costa Blanca of Spain, formed in 2024. The band delivers heavy, sun-baked psychedelic doom from the Levantine coast.
Red Mourning is a stoner/sludge metal band from Paris, France, active since 2008. Over a decade of sludge-drenched heaviness from the French capital establishes them in the Parisian doom underground.
Red Nettle is a doom metal/stoner rock band from Essex, England, formed in 2023. The band channels heavy, slow-burning doom and stoner grooves from east of London.
Long Beach, California's Red River Massacre trade in sludge-soaked stoner metal that bakes in Southern California's sun-bleached intensity and the corrosive weight of the city's underground. Since 2018, they've pursued a slow, oppressive heaviness that owes as much to Southern sludge tradition as it does to desert-rock psychedelia.
Stoner/doom metal/rock band from the Pleszew/Poznań area, Poland, active since 2014. Their approach delivers fuzz-drenched stoner doom from the Greater Poland region.
Progressive stoner metal band from Tuscany, Italy, formed in 2022. Their approach blends progressive complexity with stoner metal's hazy groove from the Italian heartland.
Sludge/stoner metal band from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2016. Their swamp-themed name accompanies corrosive, heavy riff worship from the Hungarian capital.
York-based three-piece fronted by guitarist and vocalist Cat Redfern, whose soaring, almost folksy vocals contrast dramatically with hefty blues-based sludgy riffs. Influenced by Soundgarden, Sleep, and Pantera, their sound reveals rich seams of jazz and prog beneath the stoner metal surface.
Redneck Bonfire is a stoner/doom metal band from Metz in Lorraine, France, formed in 2018. The band delivers fuzz-drenched stoner doom from the fortress city near the German border.
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