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Sun of Grey is a doom/stoner metal band from Colorado Springs, Colorado, formed in 2017, drawing on the high-altitude bleakness of the Front Range in their slow, fuzzed-out compositions.
Sunburster is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania sludge/doom/stoner metal band formed in 2012, combining the grime and aggression of sludge with the slow, narcotic groove of stoner and doom.
Sunbëarer is a stoner/doom metal band from Asheville, North Carolina, formed in 2022, contributing to the city's fertile heavy underground scene with fuzz-laden riffs and slow, hypnotic heaviness.
Sunczar deliver stoner metal from Frankfurt, building riff-heavy compositions powered by the hazy intensity of their solar-czar concept. Their Hessian capital base gives them access to one of Germany's most vibrant underground music scenes.
Sungrinder is a stoner metal and rock band from Orange County, California, formed in 2015, rooted in the Southern California tradition of sun-scorched fuzz riffs and hazy, groove-driven heavy rock.
Sunrift is a stoner/doom metal band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2023, delivering heavy riff-driven music steeped in fuzz-laden, slow-burning grooves characteristic of the Pacific Northwest's fertile heavy underground scene.
Sunsetter is a stoner/doom metal band from Sidney, Ohio, formed in 2022, channeling slow, heavy, fuzz-drenched riffs into deeply groove-oriented doom metal with a psychedelic undertow.
Supa Scoopa channel stoner metal and rock from the Galician port of Vigo, building riff-heavy compositions from Spain's Atlantic northwest. Active since 2006, they've spent two decades bringing Galician groove to the European stoner scene.
Super Moon is a psychedelic stoner metal band from Omaha, Nebraska, formed in 2015, delivering cosmic, fuzz-drenched riffs and hypnotic grooves in a style that draws from the heavy psych and stoner rock traditions of the American Midwest.
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