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Featured Album
"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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Pirot-based stoner metal outfit active since 2022, channeling thick, fuzz-drenched riffs and a laid-back, groove-driven approach to heaviness. Their sound worships at the altar of the almighty riff, drawing from the deep wells of 1970s proto-metal and desert rock.
Stoner doom act from Moscow, formed in 2017. Their music moves at a glacial pace through layers of fuzz and psychedelic textures, inviting the listener into a trance-like state of heavy meditation.
Stoner/doom metal band from Paris, formed in 2022, featuring didgeridoo on their debut album Black Hole. The five-piece delivers psychedelic-tinged doom with tracks like Rot In Hell and My Friend Death, blending crushing riffs with hypnotic grooves.
German doom/sludge/stoner metal band from Berlin, formed in 2021. They channel gloomy sludge-doom with stoner metal's hazy riffs from the capital.
German stoner rock and metal band from Darmstadt, active since 2006. With two decades of fuzzy, riff-heavy output, they are a veteran presence in the Hessian stoner scene.
Oslo-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2024, conjuring thick clouds of fuzz-laden riffage and hypnotic, groove-driven compositions. Their sound channels the haze of 1970s proto-metal through a modern lens of distortion-worship and lysergic exploration.
Stoner metal act from Chişinău, formed in 2016. Their compositions ride low-slung grooves through clouds of distortion, evoking the sun-baked psychedelia of the desert rock tradition.
Bournemouth-based groove metal act active since 2024, anchoring their sound in mid-tempo, syncopated riffing designed to generate maximum physical impact. Their chunky, headbang-inducing compositions channel the spirit of Pantera and Lamb of God.
Scotland-based stoner metal outfit active since 2015, channeling thick, fuzz-drenched riffs and a laid-back, groove-driven approach to heaviness. Their sound worships at the altar of the almighty riff, drawing from the deep wells of 1970s proto-metal and desert rock.
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