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"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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Supervoid is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania band formed in 2012, blending sludge and stoner metal with psychedelic textures to produce dense, slow-burning soundscapes that reflect the gritty character of the city's underground scene.
Sutrero is a San Francisco, California band formed in 2013 that layers heavy and stoner metal with hard rock influence, delivering thick, fuzz-drenched riffs grounded in the Bay Area's heavy music tradition.
Vansbro's Svard deliver stoner metal from the Dalarna riverside town since 2021. Their Swedish name meaning "sword" channels the direct force of bladed weaponry into compositions of fuzzy, riff-driven heaviness from the Vasterdalalven valley.
Formed in Trysil, Norway in 2005, Svölk play what they call 'bear metal' — a self-described hybrid of stoner metal, Southern rock, and Nordic redneck attitude that stands out as an unexpected export from Scandinavia. The band released their debut album in 2009, followed by Svölk 'Em All (2011) and Nights Under the Round Table (2012), building a reputation on the European festival circuit including an appearance at Sweden Rock. Their sound has been compared to a collision between American Southern metal and Scandinavian heavy rock.
Swamp is a stoner/sludge metal band from Indianapolis, Indiana, formed in 2013, combining fuzz-soaked riffs and lethargic grooves in the tradition of Midwest heavy underground acts.
Swamp Devil is a stoner metal and rock band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2013, built around hazy, fuzz-drenched riffs and a laid-back menace rooted in the Pacific Northwest underground.
Swamp Hawk is a stoner/doom metal band from Lexington, Kentucky, formed in 2018, blending slow, riff-driven grooves with psychedelic undertones in the tradition of Southern-influenced heavy rock.
Swamp Lordz delivers stoner, doom, and sludge metal from Poitiers, active since 2016. Their bayou-evoking name and triple-genre heaviness transplant the murky, oppressive atmosphere of swampland into the medieval university city of western France.
Missoula, Montana doom and stoner metal outfit formed in 2013, delivering slow-burning, fuzz-drenched riffs rooted in the tradition of Southern-inflected heavy rock. Their sound leans into the murky, psychedelic end of the stoner doom spectrum.
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