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Santa Planta channel stoner and doom metal from Madrid, building riff-heavy compositions with the sacred-plant aesthetics their name suggests. Formed in 2021, they bring herbal heaviness to the Spanish capital's stoner scene.
Santo Rostro channel stoner and doom metal from the Andalusian city of Jaen, building olive-oil-country heaviness through fuzzy, riff-driven compositions. Active since 2013, they bring southern Spanish warmth to the European stoner/doom scene.
Belgian instrumental stoner/sludge/doom metal duo of guitarist Roel Paulussen and drummer Jelle Stevens, who unleashed crushing riff-heavy mayhem from 2006 through 2016 across seven releases. Their farewell live album "Mutiny at Cafe Cafe" (2017) featured five guest vocalists and closed the book on a decade of heavyweight instrumental devastation.
Sata Kaskelottia (Finnish for "A Hundred Sperm Whales") deliver stoner and sludge metal from Helsinki, their marine-absurdist name setting the tone for heavy, hazy compositions. Active since 2015, they bring cetacean-themed heaviness to the Finnish capital.
Moscow's Satanhedge pair sludge and stoner metal from the Russian capital since 2015. Their name combining Satan with a garden boundary channels infernal domesticity into compositions of thick, fuzz-laden heaviness.
Founded in Salzburg in 2011, Sativa Root play entirely instrumental psychedelic stoner/doom metal, releasing three full-lengths including "Megalobong" and the 2023 album "Kings of the Weed Age," a six-track, 54-minute record recorded and mixed by Georg Traschwandtner. Their hypnotic approach forgoes vocals entirely, letting massive, slowly unfurling riffs and dynamic shifts carry the weight of each piece.
Saturnist deliver stoner and doom metal from Helsinki, building ringed, heavy compositions inspired by the sixth planet. Active since 2018, they bring gravitational pull to the Finnish capital's stoner/doom scene.
Sauron is a Buenos Aires stoner rock outfit founded by guitarist J.B. Larralde and vocalist Pato Larralde, regarded as one of Argentina's earliest stoner acts alongside Los Natas. They released six studio albums across nearly three decades, beginning with their self-titled debut in 1997 and continuing through El color que cayó del cielo (1999), Sobrenatural (2003), La guerra del fuego (2009), El último árbol sobre la tierra (2012), and Los Ojos Del Cuadro in 2018.
Sauron is a Buenos Aires stoner rock outfit founded by guitarist J.B. Larralde and vocalist Pato Larralde, regarded as one of Argentina's earliest stoner acts alongside Los Natas. They released six studio albums across nearly three decades, beginning with their self-titled debut in 1997 and continuing through El color que cayó del cielo (1999), Sobrenatural (2003), La guerra del fuego (2009), El último árbol sobre la tierra (2012), and Los Ojos Del Cuadro in 2018.
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