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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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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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Sungrinder is a stoner metal and rock band from Orange County, California, formed in 2015, rooted in the Southern California tradition of sun-scorched fuzz riffs and hazy, groove-driven heavy rock.
Sunrift is a stoner/doom metal band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2023, delivering heavy riff-driven music steeped in fuzz-laden, slow-burning grooves characteristic of the Pacific Northwest's fertile heavy underground scene.
Sunsetter is a stoner/doom metal band from Sidney, Ohio, formed in 2022, channeling slow, heavy, fuzz-drenched riffs into deeply groove-oriented doom metal with a psychedelic undertow.
Supa Scoopa channel stoner metal and rock from the Galician port of Vigo, building riff-heavy compositions from Spain's Atlantic northwest. Active since 2006, they've spent two decades bringing Galician groove to the European stoner scene.
Super Moon is a psychedelic stoner metal band from Omaha, Nebraska, formed in 2015, delivering cosmic, fuzz-drenched riffs and hypnotic grooves in a style that draws from the heavy psych and stoner rock traditions of the American Midwest.
Superchanger is a doom and stoner metal band from Columbus, Ohio, formed in 2022, crafting heavy, riff-centric music that draws on the low-and-slow traditions of doom and the sun-baked groove of stoner metal.
Superchief is a stoner and heavy metal band from Des Moines, Iowa, formed in 2011, blending the thick, fuzzy riffs of stoner metal with the straightforward energy of traditional heavy metal in a sound built around groove and power.
Supernaut is a stoner metal band from Santa Cruz, California, whose name is a nod to the Black Sabbath classic, channeling sun-baked, riff-heavy grooves rooted in the California coastal underground scene since 2017.
Supersonic Dragon Wagon is a stoner metal band from San Diego, California, active since 2013 and combining fuzzed-out guitar work with the desert-influenced heaviness that thrives in Southern California's DIY underground.
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