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Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
05/07 @ House of Blues Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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New Brunswick, New Jersey sludge and doom metal band active since 1993, building a deep catalog that includes Future Slum, Whiskey and Arm Wrestling, and a live set recorded at Roadburn 2017.
Stoner metal act from Sweden, formed in 2025. Their compositions ride low-slung grooves through clouds of distortion, evoking the sun-baked psychedelia of the desert rock tradition.
Belfast heavy outfit active since 2003, described as doom meeting stoner meeting heavy blues meeting psychedelic proto-punk in a back-alley knife fight. Their discography from Oblivion Switch through Drown the Phoenix spans nearly two decades of genre-defying heaviness rooted in the Northern Irish underground.
Brooklyn psychedelic doom and stoner metal band formed in 2010, issuing the Demonstration EP and the Black Blizzard single — their hazy, slow-burning approach sits at the intersection of doom and psychedelic rock.
Stoner/groove metal and hard rock band from Denbigh in North Wales, formed in 2018. They deliver riff-heavy grooves infused with stoner swagger and hard rock attitude.
Sludge/stoner metal and hard rock band from Nottingham, self-described purveyors of speed doom. Their releases including Mood Poisoning and Fantasy Dealer deliver crushing low-end riffs to the East Midlands underground.
Kentucky doom and stoner metal outfit formed in 2016, blending the slow crush of doom with fuzz-heavy stoner rock grooves across an eclectic catalog.
Stoner metal band from Ipswich in Suffolk, formed in 2018, whose motto is simply follow the riff. Their releases including Nug Hungus and a live recording from The Smokehouse capture raw, riff-driven heaviness.
Danish stoner metal band from Copenhagen, formed in 2021. They bring fuzzy, riff-heavy stoner metal to the Copenhagen underground.
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