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Featured Album
"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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Raleigh, North Carolina's Squall have combined heavy and stoner metal since 2012, blending muscular riff-driven songwriting with the hazy, groove-heavy influence of the stoner rock and metal traditions.
Rust Belt Sludge Punk from the hills of Southern Ohio.
Asheville, North Carolina stoner metal outfit Squidlord have been active since 2014, fitting comfortably within Asheville's vibrant and eclectic heavy music underground with fuzz-heavy, psychedelic-tinged stoner metal.
St. Unholyness channel stoner and doom metal from the Lower Bavarian town of Pfarrkirchen, their ironic saint name blending sacrilege with the genre's worship of heavy riffs. Emerging in 2025, they bring blasphemous heaviness to the Bavarian countryside.
Rome's Staccionata pair grindcore with stoner metal since 2026. Their Italian name meaning "fence" and unlikely genre fusion create one of the more idiosyncratic combinations in the Roman underground.
Stalemate of Wills is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania sludge, stoner, and doom metal band formed in 2022, conjuring slow, hazy heaviness from the crossroads of sludge's abrasion and stoner doom's hypnotic weight.
Stampede is a Lexington, Kentucky stoner and doom metal band formed in 2010, building slow, heavy grooves from the fertile ground between the psychedelic haze of stoner rock and the crushing weight of doom metal.
Stampede of Sloth channel sludge, stoner, and doom metal from Leipzig, their oxymoronic name perfectly capturing the paradox of their music: a stampede played in slow motion. Active since 2018, they bring crushing, glacial heaviness to Saxony's cultural capital.
Los Angeles stoner metal outfit formed in 2017, Starburner traffics in fuzz-drenched, groove-heavy riffs that draw equally from psychedelic rock and the heavier end of the desert sound.
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