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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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Massachusetts stoner, sludge, and doom metal band formed in 2021, combining fuzz-heavy psychedelic riffing with the slow, oppressive weight of doom and sludge metal across a densely layered sonic palette.
Seattle, Washington doom and stoner metal band formed in 2014, delivering plodding, fuzz-soaked heaviness that draws from the rich tradition of Pacific Northwest heavy music alongside the stoner and doom metal underground.
Salt Lake City's Swarmer blends post-metal, sludge, and stoner metal into expansive, riff-heavy soundscapes, drawing on the high desert's isolation for their dense, layered approach since forming in 2018.
Critically acclaimed stoner doom from Austin.
Cleveland, Ohio's Sweaty Mammoth have played stoner and sludge metal since 2015, delivering fuzz-heavy riffs and lumbering grooves grounded in the Midwest's blue-collar heaviness.
Sweet Cicada is a doom and stoner metal band from Lewisburg, West Virginia, active since 2014, drawing on the Appalachian landscape for a heavy, psychedelic sound rooted in vintage fuzz and slow tempos.
Salt Lake City's Sweet Jesus have been playing stoner metal since 2005, trading in thick riffs and hazy grooves that reflect the Utah desert's sprawling, sun-baked character.
Switchback is a sludge and stoner metal band from Hyrum, Utah, active since 2013, delivering slow, heavy riffs shaped by the isolation of Cache Valley's rural landscape.
Crushing Sludge / Stoner Metal / Rock from Corpus Christi.
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