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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Finnish psychedelic stoner/doom metal band from Kaustinen, formed in 2015. They conjure necromantic psychedelic doom from the folk music capital of Finland.
Athens-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2022, conjuring thick clouds of fuzz-laden riffage and hypnotic, groove-driven compositions. Their sound channels the haze of 1970s proto-metal through a modern lens of distortion-worship and lysergic exploration.
Savannah, Georgia's Bastardane blend the swaggering riff weight of groove metal with stoner metal atmospherics, active in the Southern underground since 2019.
Stoner metal act from Catanzaro, formed in 2019. Their compositions ride low-slung grooves through clouds of distortion, evoking the sun-baked psychedelia of the desert rock tradition.
Hull sludge/stoner metal band formed in 2010, purveyors of dirt-ridden Humber sludge fronted by vocalist Phil Wilkinson. Five albums deep from Nothing to Lose through King of a Dead World, they pair razor-sharp guttural vocals with infectious, groove-laden riffs and commentary on environmental collapse.
Spanish stoner/sludge metal band from Formentera del Segura in Alicante province. They deliver heavy, fuzzed-out stoner-sludge from the Mediterranean coast.
French stoner/sludge metal band from Normandy, formed in 2011. They deliver bear-fighting stoner-sludge from the Norman countryside.
Belgian stoner, southern, and doom metal act, active since 2010. They blend the low-tuned heaviness of doom with stoner rock's hazy grooves and southern metal grit.
Rome-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2015, conjuring thick clouds of fuzz-laden riffage and hypnotic, groove-driven compositions. Their sound channels the haze of 1970s proto-metal through a modern lens of distortion-worship and lysergic exploration.
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