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Divine (2024)
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Milwaukee's Shit Outta Luck blends heavy metal muscle with stoner rock's riff-first sensibility and hard rock swagger, making them a natural fit for the Wisconsin bar-circuit heavy sound since 2012.
Clearwater, Florida's Shiver have been serving up heavy, fuzz-soaked stoner metal since 2013, drawing on the peculiar tension between Florida's sun-drenched geography and the genre's slow, narcotic heaviness to craft a distinctly hazy, psychedelic sound.
Named after H.P. Lovecraft's tentacled aberrations, Albuquerque's Shoggoth have been summoning Lovecraftian doom and stoner metal since 2019, combining the high desert's psychedelic atmosphere with slow, cosmic heaviness well-suited to New Mexico's otherworldly landscape.
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Shovell channel doom and stoner metal from Barcelona, building heavy, riff-driven compositions. Emerging in 2025, they bring digging-deep heaviness to the Catalan underground.
Amherst, Massachusetts's Showhorses blend post-black metal atmosphere with stoner metal's riff-heavy warmth, creating a hazy and unsettling sound that sidesteps easy categorization since their 2016 formation.
San Francisco's Shrinebuilder are a supergroup formed in 2009 from members of Sleep, Neurosis, The Melvins, and Scott Kelly's solo projects, combining stoner and doom metal traditions into monolithic, lysergic compositions that draw from the full weight of their members' combined legacies.
Chicago doom and stoner metal outfit formed in 2023, channeling the heavy, haze-drenched weight of slow-grinding riffs and oppressive atmosphere. A young band from the Midwest already staking out territory in the ritualistic end of the doom spectrum.
Shrooms Circle deliver stoner and doom metal from Vevey with a six-piece lineup that includes keyboards, adding symphonic depth to albums like "Venus" and "The Constant Descent." Their sound ranges from psychedelic heaviness to darker, more theatrical territory on releases like "S.L.E. (Sadistic and Lovely Execution)."
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