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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Austin heavy psych/proto-metal. Vintage-sounding riffs with a modern edge.
Doom and stoner metal band from Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2019. They deliver thick, occult-tinged doom with fuzz-drenched stoner grooves.
Three-piece doom and stoner metal band from Denver, Colorado drawing directly from the 1990s American stoner metal playbook of Kyuss, Sleep, and Corrosion of Conformity. Their debut album Summoning (2022) launched a planned trilogy of doom-soaked records rooted in psych-blues riffing.
Suffocating Stoner / Doom Metal / Alternative Rock from Los Angeles, California / El Paso.
Raleigh, North Carolina duo Crystal Spiders play fuzz-drenched stoner doom rooted in heavy 70s riffs and psychedelic atmosphere. Their full-length debut showcases a confident grasp of groove and weight.
Urbana, Illinois stoner metal outfit Crystal Warlock conjure thick, fuzz-saturated riffs and hazy grooves from the flat heartland. Psychedelic tendencies wind through their heavy, slow-burning sound.
Madison, Wisconsin trio Cthonian Lich crawl through a swampy fusion of doom, sludge, and stoner metal, conjuring psychedelic dread from the Midwest. Their riffs move like shifting tectonic plates — slow, heavy, and unstoppable.
Black-doom-progressive-stoner act from Rotterdam, formed in 2019. Cthuluminati merges Lovecraftian cosmic horror with genre-defying metal that spans doom, black, progressive, and stoner traditions.
Madison, Wisconsin stoner metal band Cuda deal in thick, vintage-toned riffs and laid-back grooves with a muscle car swagger built into every song. Their Midwest take on the genre leans into fuzz and groove in equal measure.
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