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Out of Midland, Michigan, The Wizard of Bong Mountain lean into every expectation their name sets — slow, fuzzy stoner doom built for maximum low-end punishment, the kind of riff-worship that makes a virtue of repetition and deliberate, crushing tempo.
The Wizards from Bilbao deliver a potent brew of heavy, stoner, and doom metal laced with occult rock mysticism from the Basque Country since 2014. Their sorcerous name drives compositions that channel the retro-doom revival through the industrial-port grit of northern Spain.
Saint Paul's The Wolf Council have been delivering stoner metal with a distinctly Midwestern character since 2015 — heavy, groove-locked riffs with the kind of patience and unpretentious weight that thrives in the Twin Cities underground.
Thel is a heavy/stoner metal band from Thessaloniki, active since 2013. Their music delivers thick, fuzz-heavy riffs blending traditional heavy metal power with the groovy weight of stoner metal.
Portland, Maine's Thems That Wait have been hauling slow, fuzz-drenched stoner metal out of New England since 2019, a region not typically associated with the genre but capable of channeling its bleak winters into psychedelic-tinged heaviness. Their sound gravitates toward the hazy, heavy end of the stoner rock and metal spectrum.
These Beasts are a Chicago stoner/sludge metal band formed in 2010, built on thick, fuzz-drenched riffs and the slow, swaggering heaviness that defines the genre's best moments. Their music carries the grimy industrial weight of the city filtered through weed-soaked amplifier worship.
They Watch Us from the Moon is a stoner/doom metal band from Lawrence, Kansas, formed in 2019, rolling out heavy, fuzz-soaked riffs beneath a cosmic, wide-open-sky atmosphere that feels at home in the flat Kansas landscape. Their sound evokes both earthbound heaviness and a fixation on vast, unknowable distances.
Thieving Coyote is a southern stoner metal band from Florence, South Carolina, formed in 2013, blending the swampy, sun-scorched swagger of Southern metal with the heavy fuzz of stoner rock into a distinctly regional sound. Their name captures both the trickster mythology of the American South and the scavenging independence of underground heavy music.
Thinning the Herd is a New York stoner metal band formed in 2011, leaning into the heavy riff and low-end rumble of stoner metal and rock with a sardonic name that matches the genre's dark humor traditions. Without a fixed city, they maintain a degree of mystery consistent with the underground stoner circuit.
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