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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Mighty Papal Dome Shape is a two-piece sludge and noise project from Gladbeck, Germany, formed in 2017. Their sound is built on pure amp worship and droning heaviness, conjuring evil tidings from the depths of an opium dream.
Miika Keskimäki is a one-man progressive, stoner, doom, and death metal project from Finland, active since 2016. The project spans an ambitious range of extreme metal styles from crushing doom to progressive complexity.
Towering Doom / Stoner Metal / Rock out of Texas.
Mindcrawler is a stoner and doom metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2017, fusing heavy riffs with spacey psychedelic atmospherics. Their debut album Lost Orbiter captures their signature blend of fuzz-laden doom and progressive stoner rock, inspired equally by 80s movies and cosmic themes.
A heavy/stoner metal and hard rock act from the West Swedish town of Alingsås, Mindghost has been delivering groove-laden compositions since 2011. The band channels spectral imagery into fuzzy, riff-heavy metal.
Mindust is a stoner metal and space rock band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2013. They fuse stoner metal's fuzzy heaviness with space rock's cosmic psychedelia.
A stoner and doom metal outfit from Belo Horizonte whose sound weaves heavy riffs with oriental textures and prominent female vocals. Their 2019 split release Digging the Abyss, shared with Black Feather Klan, showcases a slow-burning, psychedelic heaviness rooted in the Minas Gerais underground scene.
Minorfase is a stoner metal and rock act from the central Greek cities of Larissa and Volos, active since 2016. The band delivers fuzz-heavy, groove-laden compositions from the Thessalian plain.
Vancouver, Washington's Minoton traffic in sun-scorched stoner metal that lands somewhere between fuzzed-out desert rock and downtuned heaviness, a band that has been honing its slow-burning, riff-driven approach since 2011.
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