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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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French stoner/doom metal band from Lille, delivering hazy, riff-heavy compositions since 2016. Their celestial name evokes the nocturnal, ritualistic atmosphere of their doom-laden approach.
Spanish stoner/doom metal band from Malaga, delivering sun-baked heaviness since 2021. Their name, meaning 'old moon,' evokes the nocturnal, cyclical character of their stoner doom sound.
Welsh stoner/doom metal band from Cardiff, delivering fuzz-drenched heaviness since 2017. Their anatomical name reflects the breathing, organic quality of their stoner doom compositions.
Italian stoner/doom metal band from Asti in Piedmont, delivering hazy heaviness since 2001. Their deliberately misspelled name, combining 'wisdom' with 'doom,' reflects over two decades of groove-laden stoner doom.
Swiss stoner/doom metal band from Lausanne formed in 2022, delivering heavy, psychedelic doom across sprawling compositions. Their debut album 'Fala' features seven tracks of crushing, atmospheric stoner doom spanning 45 minutes.
German project from Dresden that evolved from black metal origins in 2018 into ambient/drone/stoner/doom territory. Their genre-shifting approach spans the full spectrum from extreme metal hostility to meditative, atmospheric heaviness.
M.O.A.B. is a stoner and sludge metal band from Turin, Italy, formed in 2018. They deliver crushing stoner-sludge from the Piedmont capital.
M/Eye is a southern/stoner metal act from Moscow, formed in 2023. The band channels the unexpected warmth of American-influenced stoner grooves into the Russian capital's diverse metal underground.
Machocabrio is a stoner and hard rock band from Chillán, Chile who debuted with their album Altibajos in July 2015. The nine-track record blends stoner grooves, rock and roll energy, and Spanish-language songwriting in a style rooted in the heavy rock tradition.
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