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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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Space Satan is a stoner/doom metal band from Monrovia, California, formed in 2016. Their sound combines the slow, crushing weight of doom with the hazy, riff-forward groove of stoner metal, owing a debt to the desert rock tradition of Southern California.
Dnipro's Space Sugar pair doom and stoner metal from the central Ukrainian metropolis since 2012. Over a decade from the Dnieper River city, their cosmic-sweetness name has channeled the saccharine vastness of space into compositions of fuzz-laden heaviness.
Space Volvö bring stoner metal to Reykjavik with an automotive-themed name since 2025. Their tongue-in-cheek moniker belies a genuine commitment to fuzz-laden, riff-worshipping heaviness from the volcanic island.
Space Wax are a San Diego, California band formed in 2014, straddling stoner, doom, and traditional heavy metal. Their sound leans into vintage-toned riffing and analogue warmth, drawing equally from classic heavy metal and the fuzzier end of the stoner/doom spectrum.
Space Weed are a stoner/sludge metal band from Cape Canaveral, Florida, formed in 2021. Their name and location lean into the cosmic joke of launching heavy, slow-burning riffs from the shadow of NASA's launch facilities on the Space Coast.
Spacebeast is a sludge/stoner metal band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2015. They combine the slow, grinding heaviness of sludge with the lysergic haze of stoner metal, fitting naturally into Portland's well-established heavy underground.
Spaceboy is a San Francisco band formed in 2017, navigating an eclectic intersection of progressive stoner, doom, and death metal. Their genre-blending approach reflects the Bay Area's history of genre-boundary-pushing heavy music, layering psychedelic texture over heavier structural ambitions.
SpaceBrain channel stoner metal from Geneva, building cosmic, riff-heavy jams that lean into psychedelic heaviness. Their name reflects the spacey, mind-expanding dimension of their approach to heavy music.
Spacefog pair stoner and doom metal from Sweden's Vastra Gotaland region since 2012. Over a decade of channeling their cosmic-haze name into compositions of thick, nebulously heavy stoner doom from western Sweden.
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