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Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! is a psychedelic stoner/doom metal band from the United Kingdom, active since 2012. Their triple-verdict name captures the unrepentant, hedonistic spirit of their psychedelic stoner doom.
Gunmouth is a sludge/stoner/doom metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2021, dealing in low-end-heavy, distortion-drenched slow jams. The band channels the heaviest, grittiest side of Hamburg's rock and metal underground.
Stoner/sludge metal from Texas.
Güdenläwd is a heavy and stoner metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, active since 2006. The band has released the album Good And Loud and contributed to a Circus of Power tribute release, maintaining an independent presence on Bandcamp.
From South Wales in United Kingdom, this stoner/doom metal act brings relentless intensity since 2013. Their work explores the genre's darkest corners through immense heaviness.
Allston, Massachusetts is an unlikely home for a stoner metal band, but Hackman has made it work since 2011, fusing the genre's hazy, riff-heavy grooves with the Boston area's characteristically no-nonsense underground ethos.
Haddock is a doom/stoner metal band from Karlstad, Sweden, active since 2013 and delivering crushing, fuzz-laden heaviness where doom's oppressive weight meets stoner metal's hazy grooves. The project channels low-end power and psychedelic atmosphere.
Knoxville, Tennessee's Hag Bastard throws sludge, stoner, and doom into a single foul-mouthed brew that feels native to the American South's heat and humidity. Since 2022, they've been one of the more colorfully named acts in the region's underground.
Tulsa's Hagswine has been wallowing in stoner and sludge metal since 2013, combining the two genres' shared appetite for fuzz, filth, and low-tuned punishment. Oklahoma may not be on the metal map, but they've been making a case for it for over a decade.
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