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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Doom and stoner metal band from Sopron, Hungary active since 2011. Wall of Sleep crafts heavy, groove-laden doom and stoner riffs from the historic border city near Austria.
Doom and stoner metal band from Genoa, Italy active since 2013. War Cross crafts heavy, groove-laden doom and stoner riffs from the Ligurian coast.
Baltimore's Warbrides have been trafficking in sludge and stoner metal since 2013, drawing on the city's long tradition of slow, punishing heaviness. Their sound has the hazy, narcotic pull of stoner metal anchored by the righteous misery of sludge — feedback-drenched and unhurried, but never slack. Baltimore breeds heavy music with a particular grimness, and Warbrides wear that heritage in every riff.
Stoner metal and rock band from Jyväskylä, Finland active since 2011. Warchief lays down heavy, groove-laden stoner riffs from the lake district of central Finland.
Houston heavy psych/doom blending 70s rock and psychedelia into high-powered heavy rock.
Heavy Stoner / Doom Metal out of Texas.
Formed in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1998 by bassist and vocalist Dave "Dixie" Collins, a veteran of the sludge act Buzzoven, Weedeater channel the heaviest elements of Southern doom and noise rock into a characteristically filthy, low-register rumble. Their debut ...And Justice for Y'all (2001) and Sixteen Tons (2003) appeared on Berserker Records before the band joined Southern Lord for God Luck and Good Speed. Their most recent album, Goliathan (2015), continued the uncompromising approach that made them central figures in the North Carolina heavy underground.
Stoner and doom metal project from Poland emerging in 2024. Weedgazer channels hazy psychedelic atmospheres through heavy stoner doom riffs.
Stoner and doom metal band from Kraków, Poland formed in 2023. Weedow delivers heavy, groove-laden stoner doom from the former royal capital of Poland.
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