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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Orlando stoner metal band trafficking in thick, fuzz-drenched riffs and groove-heavy songwriting that keeps one foot in classic heavy rock and the other in psychedelic haze.
Bellingham doom and stoner act riding the Pacific Northwest's deep tradition of heavy, haze-filled riffing, crafting slow-burning, psychedelic passages that emphasize tone and mood over velocity.
Spokane sludge and stoner metal band built on hazy, amplifier-worshipping riffs and the slow, suffocating heaviness that defines the Pacific Northwest heavy underground.
Progressive sludge-stoner-thrash hybrid from Moscow, formed in 2019. Casamatta blends multiple extreme subgenres into a genre-defying whole.
Cincinnati heavy and stoner metal band fusing fuzz-drenched riffs and swaggering grooves with the hard-rock DNA that underpins classic heavy metal.
Cassius King traffic in slow, hazy heaviness out of Ramsey, NJ, combining doom's funeral weight with stoner rock's warm fuzz for a sound built on thick riffs and deliberate, oppressive pacing.
Stoner-thrash hybrid from the small town of Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, active since 2013. Castero blends fuzzy, low-end grooves with thrash aggression from deep in rural Ireland.
Stoner metal band from Mjölby in Östergötland, active since 2004. Catapult the Smoke has delivered two decades of heavy, fuzzed-out stoner grooves from central Sweden.
Stoner metal band from Barcelona, Spain, emerging in 2025. They deliver heavy, fuzz-drenched stoner metal from the Catalan capital.
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