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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Smoke Mountain is a stoner and doom metal band from Tallahassee, Florida, formed in 2017, channeling thick, hazy guitar tones and lethargic tempos into heavy, weed-ritual doom with a southern flair.
Smoke the Light is a stoner metal band from Long Island, New York, formed in 2022, building their sound on fuzz-heavy riffs, rolling rhythms, and the hazy, psych-tinged energy characteristic of the stoner metal genre.
Smokestack Lightning is a psychedelic stoner and doom metal band from Burlington, formed in 2017, channeling Howlin' Wolf's iconic song title into music steeped in hazy, slow-burning riffs and lysergic desert rock atmosphere.
Smoky McBongwater deliver sludge and stoner metal from Boblingen near Stuttgart, their comedic stoner name setting the tone for hazy, riff-driven compositions soaked in THC-fueled aesthetics. Active since 2016, they bring unabashed stoner culture to the Swabian metal scene.
Rochester, New York sludge and stoner metal band founded in 2011, channeling down-tuned riffs and slow, crushing grooves reminiscent of the Southern sludge tradition.
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Jonkoping's Snailking have been merging stoner, sludge, and doom metal since 2012. Over a decade from the Smaland capital, their gastropod-royalty name has channeled the slow majesty of the mollusk sovereign into compositions of layered, fuzz-drenched heaviness.
Houston, Texas stoner metal and rock outfit formed in 2023, channeling fuzz-drenched riffs and heavy grooves consistent with the South Texas heavy rock underground.
Tallahassee, Florida doom and stoner metal band formed in 2013, blending hazy psychedelic riffs with lumbering sludge tempos in the tradition of Southern fuzz-doom.
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