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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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The Curf is a stoner rock/stoner doom metal band from Athens, active since 2007. Their music delivers heavy, fuzz-laden grooves and crushing doom riffs, contributing to Athens' vibrant stoner and doom scene.
The Cyon Project from Turin evolved from melodic death metal into heavy and stoner metal, reflecting a stylistic transformation since 2015. A decade of canine-themed compositions from the Piedmontese capital.
The Deep Blue is a stoner/doom metal band from Margate on the Kent coast, formed in 2021. Their oceanic name suits their heavy, drowning riffs and slow-burning doom, drawing from the seaside atmosphere of the Thames Estuary.
Psychedelic Heavy / Stoner Metal from Houston.
Brand new out of Bloomington, Indiana in 2025, The Devil Let Us arrive fully formed in the molten intersection of stoner, groove, and sludge metal — slow, massive, and unrepentantly heavy. Bloomington's college-town atmosphere has long nurtured experimental heavy music, and this band channels that spirit into something seismic and groove-laden. The triple threat of stoner fuzz, groove metal's locked-in pocket, and sludge's abrasive drag makes for a deeply physical listening experience.
Houston's The Dirty Seeds have been cultivating their strain of stoner metal since 2014, bringing the swampy, tar-slow riffage of the genre to bear with the intensity you'd expect from Texas's most relentlessly hot city. Their sound favors massive, fuzz-drenched guitar tones and a loose, live-sounding energy that makes their records feel like sitting next to the stage amp. In a city that breeds outsized personalities and outsized sounds, The Dirty Seeds are one of Houston's most enduring underground acts.
The Dukes of Hades is a sludge/stoner metal band from England, formed in 2024. Their music delivers thick, swampy sludge and stoner grooves with an infernal edge suggested by their hellish namesake.
Doom/stoner metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, featuring guitarist Iossif (Wagner Lamounier, aka Wagner Antichrist), a founding member of both Sepultura and Sarcófago, alongside vocalist Miss Aileen (Germânia Gonçalves), bassist Anderson Vaca, and drummer Rodrigo Buzelin. The band released a self-titled debut album on June 9, 2017, followed by Seven Acts to Apocalypse in 2023, both on Osmose Productions.
Denton's The Fear of the Sun occupy a hazy borderland between stoner metal's fuzz-drenched grooves, doom's slow-burning heaviness, and the expansive drift of post-rock, active since 2014 in a city that's long punched above its weight for adventurous music. Their sound is patient and immersive, built on guitar tones that feel like heat radiating off asphalt under a relentless Texas summer. The name itself is a perfect encapsulation of music that feels simultaneously oppressive and vast.
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