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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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Chicago's The Atlas Moth have been one of the defining voices in American atmospheric sludge metal since 2008, painting enormous sonic canvases with crushing low-end riffs, psychedelic textures, and a melodic sensibility that elevates their music well beyond the genre's baseline heaviness. The city's industrial grit runs through everything they create, but so does an unexpected lyricism that sets them apart from their peers.
The Bendal Interlude from Liverpool deliver southern and stoner metal with the Scouse swagger of England's music capital since 2007. Nearly two decades of bourbon-soaked compositions from the banks of the Mersey has transplanted American southern metal to the northwest of England.
The Black Lodge from Veneto deliver heavy and stoner metal named after the otherworldly realm from Twin Peaks since 2017. Their northeastern Italian base channels David Lynch's red-curtained nightmare through fuzz-drenched compositions.
The Brothers Keg from London deliver stoner, doom, and sludge metal with the beer-barrel camaraderie their pub-culture name demands since 2017. Their compositions pair fuzz-drenched heaviness with the fraternal bonding of a good session at the local.
Seattle's The Brown Scare blend groove metal's rhythmic lock-step with stoner metal's hazy, riff-heavy lumber — a combination that fits the Pacific Northwest's particular brand of heavy music, where the weather seems to slow everything down just enough to make the grooves land harder. Active since 2018, they're part of Seattle's ongoing experiment in finding new ways to be heavy without being fast.
Los Angeles' The Cimmerian draw on the ancient and barbaric spirit their name invokes — stoner/sludge metal built for the long haul, riff-heavy and swaggering with the kind of fuzz-soaked weight that the genre's best practitioners have always known how to deploy. Formed in 2022, they enter a Los Angeles heavy scene with deep roots and find their place in the lineage naturally.
Virginia Beach's The Crimson Electric have been fusing Southern metal's bluesy swagger with the slow, narcotic weight of stoner metal since 2007, a combination that suits their coastal Virginia setting more than it might seem. Their music has a humid, road-worn quality to it — the kind that suggests long drives down flat coastal highways with the volume turned all the way up.
Born in 2024 in Sparta, New Jersey, The Crooked Skulls trade in stoner metal that leans as much on rock's loose, swinging feel as on anything crushing. Their recent arrival means they're still defining their sound, but the stoner metal and rock foundation points toward a band more interested in atmosphere and groove than spectacle.
Indie sludge band from Lausanne in Switzerland's French-speaking region. Their catalog includes the releases Conjure, Horde, and Fuel! Flames! Blast!, blending sludge metal weight with indie rock sensibility.
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