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Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
05/07 @ House of Blues Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Dubuque, Iowa duo formed in 2016 playing a crushing blend of sludge and stoner metal, bringing a raw Midwestern heaviness to the fuzz-and-feedback end of the genre.
Starkville, Mississippi band formed in 2024 playing sludge and stoner metal, a newly emerged voice in the South's expanding heavy underground.
Slug Lord reign over doom and stoner metal from Tampere, building riff-heavy, glacially paced compositions worthy of their gastropod royalty. Active since 2011, they bring slug-monarch heaviness to the Pirkanmaa stoner/doom scene.
Slug Mammoth channel stoner metal from Lahti, building massive, slow-moving compositions that combine slug-pace deliberation with mammoth-scale heaviness. Active since 2016, they bring prehistoric fuzz to the Paijat-Hame scene.
Philadelphia stoner/doom band formed in 2011, trafficking in hazy, amplifier-worship heaviness drawn from the city's underground rock and metal scene.
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Salt Lake City stoner metal project formed in 2023, blending amplified fuzz-rock heaviness with occasional acoustic passages to create a versatile take on the genre from the Utah underground.
Boise, Idaho band formed in 2016 playing a murky, heavy blend of sludge, stoner, and doom metal, representing one of the few heavy underground acts to emerge from the Pacific Northwest interior.
Smoke Healer is a stoner and heavy metal band from Hebron, Kentucky, formed in 2015, blending the slow, fuzz-laden grooves of stoner metal with traditional heavy metal riffing and a hard rock foundation.
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