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San Diego stoner metal act Mortar formed in 2024, leaning into the fuzz-heavy, groove-laden side of heavy music that the Southern California desert rock and stoner metal scene has long cultivated.
Denver newcomers Mortis Witch, formed in 2025, brew a hazy concoction of stoner and doom metal rooted in the Colorado high-altitude heavy music scene, blending fuzz-drenched riffs with slow, hypnotic doom weight.
A doom/stoner metal act from Belgrade, Mortuary Hearse has been crafting heavy, funeral-paced compositions since 2023. The band channels the morbid transport imagery of their name into crushing doom.
A stoner-sludge quartet from Ghent, Belgium, describing their music as a tunnel-vision trance built on doomed riffs and relentless rhythm, with acknowledged debts to Kyuss, Sleep, Electric Wizard, and Eyehategod. Their debut album 'Diptera' arrived in February 2023 on eight tracks of psychedelic heaviness, and a second album is forthcoming on Pesticide Records.
Cincinnati stoner metal outfit Moss Mother formed in 2023, working a riff-forward style that favors thick, hazy tones and hypnotic groove — a new act in the Ohio underground leaning into the fuzzy, psychedelic end of heavy rock.
North Babylon, Long Island sludge/stoner duo Moth Eater launched in 2023 with a thick, fuzz-drenched sound that punches above its two-piece configuration — heavy, hypnotic, and rooted in the grimy New York underground.
Gardendale, Alabama stoner metal act Moth Face have been riffing in the tradition of Southern heaviness since 2015, blending baked-in psychedelia with enough grit to keep their sound from floating too far into the cosmos.
Cincinnati's Moth Priest bring a ritualistic weight to stoner/doom metal, formed in 2021 with a sound that favors glacial tempos and hazy, amplifier-worship aesthetics — part of a quietly active heavy underground in southern Ohio.
Mother Corona is a stoner metal and rock act from the Oxfordshire town of Didcot, delivering fuzz-drenched grooves since 2012. The band channels the hazy energy of classic stoner rock through a distinctly British lens.
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