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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Son of Battles is an atmospheric stoner/doom metal project formed in 2021, crafting expansive, heavy compositions that balance the haze of stoner metal with the meditative weight of atmospheric doom.
Son of the Morning is a psychedelic stoner/doom metal band from Des Moines, Iowa, formed in 2017, dealing in slow, haze-drenched riffs and expansive, ritualistic heaviness.
Sonic Brew is a sludge/stoner metal band from Hyrum, Utah, formed in 2017, cooking up down-tuned, fuzz-drenched riffs from an unlikely corner of the Intermountain West underground.
Sonic Druid is a stoner metal and rock band from Spokane, Washington, formed in 2024, channeling fuzzy, groove-heavy riffs and a desert-rock spirit from the Inland Northwest.
Sonic Moon channel psychedelic doom and stoner metal from Aarhus, building cosmic, riff-heavy compositions that orbit between heavy psych and crushing doom. Active since 2017, they bring lunar-influenced heaviness to the Jutland scene.
Sonic Prayer channel drone, doom, and stoner metal from Berlin, building meditative, heavy compositions that transform volume into spiritual experience. Formed in 2019, they bring transcendent heaviness to the capital's vast underground.
Sonic Speculum is a psychedelic doom/stoner metal band from Atlanta, Georgia, formed in 2001, weaving deep, droning heaviness with trippy, mind-expanding textures drawn from two decades of Southern heavy music.
Sonolith is a stoner/doom metal band from Las Vegas, Nevada, formed in 2017, delivering heavy, slow-burning riff worship shaped by the arid heat and neon sprawl of the desert Southwest.
Sons of Ghidorah is a stoner/doom metal band from New York, formed in 2014, taking their name from the classic kaiju and delivering titanic, slow-motion riff destruction in kind.
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