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The Last Generation is a stoner metal/rock band from Maghera, Northern Ireland, active since 2012. Their music delivers heavy, riff-driven stoner rock and metal from the rural heart of County Derry, proving that heavy music thrives beyond the cities.
Watertown, New York's The Love Team have been slugging through stoner metal territory since 2018, blending fuzz-heavy riffs with the slow-cooked groove that defines the genre's most hypnotic practitioners. Their upstate New York location, far removed from the usual Brooklyn noise scenes, gives them a low-key regional identity that fits the unpretentious, heads-down heaviness of their music.
Philadelpha's The Magnificent Shit Hawks of the Greater Northern Americas arrived in 2014 with a name designed to provoke a double-take, but their stoner metal is entirely sincere — thick riffs, hazy tempos, and the kind of unhurried heaviness that demands a subwoofer. The absurdist title belies a band fully committed to the slow, fuzz-drenched traditions of the genre.
Denver's The Marred emerged in 2019 with a sound rooted in the slow, suffocating weight of doom metal and the hazy warmth of stoner metal — two traditions that share more than most let on. Their riffs move like tectonic plates, unhurried and inevitable, and the band leans into a psychedelic thickness that rewards patience. In a city with a robust heavy music scene, The Marred carve out space through deliberate heaviness rather than speed or complexity.
The Miser is a stoner metal/rock band from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, active since 2014. Their music delivers heavy, fuzz-drenched riffs and groove-driven stoner metal from the Chiltern Hills.
Formed in Lafayette, Indiana in 2011, The Mound Builders traffic in the slow-burning, fuzz-soaked territory where stoner metal bleeds into hard rock and punk. Their sound channels the flat Midwestern landscape into something heavy and hypnotic, built on massive riffs and a loose, lived-in energy.
Billings, Montana's The Old Ones have been cultivating their blend of stoner, sludge, and doom metal since 2015, drawing on the isolation of the northern plains to fuel music that is slow, heavy, and oppressive in the best possible sense. Their sound sits in the long shadow of Lovecraftian dread — fitting for a band whose name references forces older than human understanding.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee doom/stoner metal band formed in 2015, dealing in fuzz-drenched, Sabbath-worshipping heaviness built on crushing low-tuned riffs and powerful groove-oriented rhythms. Released through Ripple Music, their LP Looking for Today pairs psychedelic stoner rock atmosphere with the slower, heavier pulse of traditional doom metal, making no apologies for their deeply roots-minded approach.
Stoner metal band founded in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2013 by guitarist and vocalist Christiano Vieira. After Vieira relocated to Portugal in 2022 and rebuilt the band there, The Red Crow released their debut album Spellbound in January 2025 on Sodeh Records, a ten-track record drawing on Black Sabbath and Red Fang.
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