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Portland, Maine's Thems That Wait have been hauling slow, fuzz-drenched stoner metal out of New England since 2019, a region not typically associated with the genre but capable of channeling its bleak winters into psychedelic-tinged heaviness. Their sound gravitates toward the hazy, heavy end of the stoner rock and metal spectrum.
These Beasts are a Chicago stoner/sludge metal band formed in 2010, built on thick, fuzz-drenched riffs and the slow, swaggering heaviness that defines the genre's best moments. Their music carries the grimy industrial weight of the city filtered through weed-soaked amplifier worship.
They Watch Us from the Moon is a stoner/doom metal band from Lawrence, Kansas, formed in 2019, rolling out heavy, fuzz-soaked riffs beneath a cosmic, wide-open-sky atmosphere that feels at home in the flat Kansas landscape. Their sound evokes both earthbound heaviness and a fixation on vast, unknowable distances.
Thieving Coyote is a southern stoner metal band from Florence, South Carolina, formed in 2013, blending the swampy, sun-scorched swagger of Southern metal with the heavy fuzz of stoner rock into a distinctly regional sound. Their name captures both the trickster mythology of the American South and the scavenging independence of underground heavy music.
Thinning the Herd is a New York stoner metal band formed in 2011, leaning into the heavy riff and low-end rumble of stoner metal and rock with a sardonic name that matches the genre's dark humor traditions. Without a fixed city, they maintain a degree of mystery consistent with the underground stoner circuit.
A psychedelic doom outfit from the small Wisconsin town of Hatley, Third Eye Rider pursue the hazy crossroads where stoner riffing and slow, crushing doom converge. Their sound leans into extended, fog-thick arrangements that reward patience over speed.
Bloomington, Indiana's Thorr-Axe play a riff-worshipping brand of stoner doom that sits comfortably in the lineage of Electric Wizard and Saint Vitus while carrying its own Midwestern heft. Formed in 2010, the band leans into fuzz-thick guitar tone and hypnotic, plodding tempos that invite the listener to lose themselves in the low end.
Thorun from Cardiff deliver stoner and sludge metal from the Welsh capital since 2011. Over a decade of fuzz-drenched compositions from South Wales has produced some of the region's most crushing slow-tempo heaviness.
Three Eyes Left is a stoner/doom metal band from Bologna, active since 2011. Their surreal name adds a bizarre edge to the heavy, fuzz-laden doom and stoner riffs they deliver from the Emilian capital.
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