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Varese's Stoned Monkey blend sludge and stoner metal from the Lombard lakes since 2011. Their primate-themed intoxication name captures the fuzzy, primal quality of their heavy approach.
Stoned Morose is a sludge/stoner/doom metal band from Central Florida, formed in 2023, blending the humid, oppressive weight of Florida doom with stoner grooves and corrosive sludge textures.
Stoned Prophet is a stoner/doom metal act from Virginia, formed in 2022, channeling slow, hazy heaviness and droning low-end riffs into a meditative yet crushing brand of stoner doom.
Stoned Succubus is a stoner/doom metal band from Madison, Wisconsin, formed in 2024, pairing occult-tinged imagery with heavy, sluggish riffs and the psychedelic warmth of stoner rock.
Genoa's Stoned Vikings Pillaging Valhalla deliver sludge and stoner metal with an epically absurd name since 2026. Their Ligurian origins and maximalist title signal a sound that values excess in every dimension.
Stonedead is a stoner metal band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 2021, bringing fuzz-heavy grooves and psych-inflected riffs to the Pacific Northwest's diverse heavy metal landscape.
StonedHenge is a stoner metal band from Atlanta, Georgia, formed in 2022, the name nodding to both the monolithic heaviness of their sound and the psychedelic haze that runs through the Southern stoner rock tradition.
Stonefuze pair heavy and stoner metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2013. Over a decade of channeling their fused-rock name into compositions of thick, stone-weighted heaviness.
Cherkasy's Stoneganj pair stoner and doom metal from the central Ukrainian Dnieper city since 2022. Their stone-compound name channels the weight of geological formations into compositions of fuzz-laden heaviness from central Ukraine.
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