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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Taint is a stoner/sludge metal band from Swansea, Wales, formed in 2020. Their music combines the heavy, low-tuned grooves of sludge with the psychedelic haze of stoner metal, emanating from the industrial heart of south Wales.
Tales of a Liquid Dawn is a progressive/stoner/doom metal band from England, formed in 2022. Their music weaves together the expansive song structures of progressive metal with the heavy, riff-driven approach of stoner doom, creating immersive and cerebral compositions.
Tannoiser from Salò on Lake Garda deliver a punishing blend of stoner, doom, and death metal since 2018. Their town — forever associated with Mussolini's puppet republic and Pasolini's controversial film — adds layers of dark historical weight to their crushing sound.
Vienna sludge/doom trio TarLung formed in 2013 and have since built a credible European heavy music resume, sharing stages with EyeHateGod, Crowbar, and Acid King. Across four full-length albums — including "Beyond the Black Pyramid," "Architect," and "Axis Mundi" (2026, Argonauta Records) — and a split EP with noise-rock band KRPL, they deliver pulverizing, slow-motion riffs anchored in the American sludge tradition.
TarpitOrchestra is a stoner/groove metal band from Oulu, Finland, active since 2009. They deliver heavy, groove-laden stoner metal from the Finnish north.
Taser is a progressive stoner metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2018. They blend progressive structures with stoner metal's heavy grooves.
Tectonic Shifts is a stoner/doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2022. They deliver seismic, earth-shaking stoner doom.
Teleost is a stoner/drone/doom metal band from York, formed in 2022. Named after the largest group of bony fishes, their music plumbs the depths of low-end heaviness through droning, glacially-paced doom with stoner metal's fuzz-laden warmth.
Tellemahookah is a stoner metal band from England, formed in 2024. Their music delivers fuzz-drenched, riff-heavy stoner metal with the laid-back heaviness and groove that define the genre.
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