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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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Fort Worth doom quartet blending classic doom, desert rock, and NWOBHM influences. Three Texans and one Englishman delivering heavy, fuzz-drenched riffs.
Oslo-based stoner/sludge metal outfit active since 2011, laying down thick, fuzz-caked riffs that move at a lumbering, hypnotic pace. Their sound occupies the hazy intersection where stoner metal's psychedelic warmth meets sludge's abrasive hostility.
Cabrocordero is an experimental sludge and stoner metal duo from Buenos Aires, built around bass and drums in a format that recalls Big Business in its stripped-down but crushing heaviness. Their 2011 full-length Namastie Qoh — nine tracks and over fifty minutes of fuzzed-out riffs and noise experiments — earned recognition from international metal press as a standout in South American heavy music. The band has cited a philosophy of musical transmission, describing their compositions as a kind of channel for sonic energy rather than conventional songwriting.
Formed in Syracuse, New York in 2017, Cactus Cathedral crafts slow-burning stoner and doom metal weighted with riff-heavy grooves and an earthy, psychedelic undertow.
Hailing from Watertown, New York, Cacus plays stoner and doom metal rooted in thick, mid-paced riffing and a hazy, amplifier-worshipping aesthetic.
A doom and stoner metal project, Caduceus brings a heavy, narcotic quality to the genre, built around monolithic riffs and a slow, hypnotic sense of dread.
Seattle psychedelic doom/stoner metal band drawing on the Pacific Northwest's deep tradition of heavy, hazy riffing since 2015.
San Diego's Call of the Wild blend heavy, doom, and stoner metal with hard rock into a thick, riff-driven sound that has been rolling since 2020.
Doom-sludge-stoner act from Russia, formed in 2024. Call of Wrath delivers heavy, slow-burning riffs.
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