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Featured Album
Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Stoner metal and rock band from Goes in the Dutch province of Zeeland, active since 2019. Their fuzz-laden grooves and heavy riffing channel the stoner metal tradition from the southwestern Netherlands.
Richmond, Virginia's Urisk are among the more recent additions to their city's fertile doom and stoner metal scene, formed in 2024. Drawing on the Southern-inflected stoner doom tradition, they bring Virginia's blue-collar heaviness to a genre well-suited to it.
London-based stoner, sludge, and metalcore band active since 2018, blending the heaviness of sludge with metalcore's dynamic structures. Their cross-genre approach creates a uniquely heavy sound from the British capital's diverse metal scene.
Heavy and stoner metal band from Varazdin, Croatia, named with a Tolkien reference, active since 2019. Their sound combines traditional heavy metal weight with stoner metal's fuzzy, riff-driven psychedelia.
Sludge and stoner metal band from Bristol, England, active since 2020 and channeling heavyweight fuzz from one of the UK's most creative music cities. Their sound draws from Bristol's rich tradition of heavy, bass-driven music.
UseEye is a stoner/doom metal project from Ufa in Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan, active since 2020. The project channels the hazy, riff-heavy aesthetics of stoner doom from the Ural Mountains region.
Sludge and stoner metal band from the small Croatian town of Nasice, active since 2009. Their heavy, fuzz-laden sound channels the weight of sludge metal with stoner rock's groove from the Slavonian countryside.
Long-running Valencian band active since 2003, evolving from heavy metal origins toward stoner and hard rock over their decade-plus career. Their extensive Spanish-language discography spanning ten releases from Diablo Blvd. through Santos & Diablos documents their stylistic journey across multiple subgenres.
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