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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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Doom and stoner metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, active since 2008 and delivering heavyweight, fuzz-laden riffs from the Croatian capital. Their long tenure has established them as a fixture of the Zagreb metal scene.
Groove and stoner metal band from the Kujawy-Pomerania region of Poland, active since 2022. Their sound combines groove metal's rhythmic heaviness with stoner metal's fuzzy warmth.
Stoner and sludge metal band from Scotland, active since 2012 and delivering heavyweight, fuzz-laden riffs from the Scottish underground. Their sound combines the low-end heaviness of sludge with stoner metal's psychedelic warmth.
Stoner metal band from Madrid, Spain, delivering heavy, fuzz-drenched doom and stoner metal with thrash and rock influences since 2019. Their 2023 debut Stellium, described as bombastic and seriously heavy, spans eight tracks of hooks and crushing weight recorded by Ignacio Lopez-Rufian.
Stoner and groove metal band from Ferrara in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, emerging in 2024. Their sound blends the heavy grooves of stoner metal with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Stoner metal and rock band from Goes in the Dutch province of Zeeland, active since 2019. Their fuzz-laden grooves and heavy riffing channel the stoner metal tradition from the southwestern Netherlands.
Richmond, Virginia's Urisk are among the more recent additions to their city's fertile doom and stoner metal scene, formed in 2024. Drawing on the Southern-inflected stoner doom tradition, they bring Virginia's blue-collar heaviness to a genre well-suited to it.
London-based stoner, sludge, and metalcore band active since 2018, blending the heaviness of sludge with metalcore's dynamic structures. Their cross-genre approach creates a uniquely heavy sound from the British capital's diverse metal scene.
Heavy and stoner metal band from Varazdin, Croatia, named with a Tolkien reference, active since 2019. Their sound combines traditional heavy metal weight with stoner metal's fuzzy, riff-driven psychedelia.
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