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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Suzzara's Shades of Ravaillac emerged in 2025 with stoner metal named for the assassin of Henry IV. Their historical reference and Lombard small-town origins create an unlikely but distinctive identity.
Hammond, Louisiana's Shadow Giant plant their flag firmly in the bayou-weighted end of stoner and doom metal, letting their riffs breathe slow and heavy under Southern skies since 2017. The combination of crushing low-end and hazy, hypnotic grooves gives their sound a particular regional gravity.
Chicago's Shadow of Jupiter cast a wide sonic net since forming in 2022, threading stoner metal's fuzzed-out heaviness together with doom's glacial pace and psychedelic rock's drift into the cosmic. Their approach is more expansive than most in the genre, reflecting the city's appetite for experimental heavy music.
Padua's Shadow Sun pair doom and stoner metal from the Veneto since 2016. Their oxymoronic name captures the paradox of their sound: simultaneously bright and heavy, warm and crushing.
Kingston, New York's Shadow Witch have carved out a distinct niche in psychedelic stoner metal since 2016, letting thick fuzz tones, lysergic guitar excursions, and hypnotic rhythms do the heavy lifting in a Hudson Valley scene with a long history of heavy and experimental music. Their sound is rooted in the warm, narcotic end of the stoner genre rather than its more aggressive extremes.
Rooted in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Shalem draw on the arid landscape of the Southwest in their blend of heavy, doom, and stoner metal — music built for wide-open spaces and the psychedelic heat of the high desert. Active since 2009, they bring a laid-back but weighty approach that mixes earthy riff-rock with the slow, lumbering pulse of doom.
Doom and stoner metal band from São Paulo, formed in 2014, consisting of Gabriel Martinez on vocals, Gustavo Bueno on guitar, Allan Lordaro on bass, and Alexandre Dantas on drums. The band debuted with the EP Rising Sun on November 10, 2014, containing four tracks: Purple Fog, Forsaken, Black Witch, and Fading Moon.
Siversky's Shamayna merge doom, sludge, and stoner metal from the Leningrad Oblast village since 2021. Their shamanic name and rural origins near Saint Petersburg channel spiritual healing rituals into compositions of multi-layered heaviness.
Boston's Shatner have been delivering stoner and heavy metal since 2004, bringing the Massachusetts city's long tradition of hard rock credibility to a sound that trades in thick riffs, desert-rock grooves, and an unhurried, hazy heaviness. One of the longer-running acts in their local scene, they carry a veteran's confidence in letting the riff do the work.
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