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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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Phoenix's Daytripper drag stoner and doom metal through the desert heat with a sun-baked, hazy approach that transforms the Arizona landscape into sonic texture. Since forming in 2022, they've leaned fully into the slow, sweltering side of the genre — music for long drives through the Sonoran expanse.
Lansing, Michigan's Dead Daughters sink deep into the overlap between stoner and doom metal, building slow, haze-soaked riffs that feel at once colossal and oddly meditative. The Rust Belt atmosphere seeps into every drawn-out note.
Iowa City's Dead Emperors trade in warm, fuzz-drenched stoner metal that sounds tailor-made for long drives through the state's flat, open plains — unhurried, heavy, and built around the kind of riff that settles into your chest and stays there.
Nashua, New Hampshire's Dead Harrison fuse doom's meditative weight with stoner metal's psychedelic warmth, forming a hazy, riff-worshipping sound since 2014 that draws equally from classic heavy metal and smoke-filled basement jams.
Dead Myrick is a sludge/stoner metal band from Dresden, Germany, formed in 2019. They deliver thick, fuzz-drenched heaviness that crawls through sludge and stoner territory.
Indianapolis' Dead Princess Black Unicorn splice industrial machinery into the bones of black and stoner metal, arriving at something genuinely strange and hard to categorize. The juxtaposition of heaviness and mechanical noise gives them a personality few acts can match.
Troy, New York's Dead Rabbits carry the Southern sludge and stoner metal tradition deep into the Northeast, delivering heavy, swamp-soaked grooves far from their genre's geographic home. Lumbering riffs and fuzz-thick tones anchor everything they do.
Oshkosh, Wisconsin's Dead Ringers move at the slow, hypnotic pace of doom and stoner metal, letting fuzz and repetition do the heavy lifting. Their sound suits a frozen Wisconsin winter — patient, heavy, and deeply immersive.
Nashville's Dead Runes emerged in 2023 with a stoner metal approach that leans into fuzz and groove, offering a heavy counterweight to Music City's mainstream reputation. Still early in their run, the foundation sounds solid.
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