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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Stamford, Connecticut's Electric Beast weaves together progressive doom and stoner heaviness into long, sprawling tracks that build slowly before collapsing under their own weight — a band for the patient and the stonerd alike.
Cincinnati's Electric Citizen bring a vintage sensibility to heavy and stoner metal, anchored by soulful vocals and riffs that feel pulled from a forgotten corner of the 1970s rock underground — formed in 2014 but sounding timeless.
Orlando's Electric Dawn wraps psychedelic stoner and doom metal in a sun-bleached haze, the humid weight of Florida coming through in every note since the band formed in 2018.
Trading in pure metallic intensity, this stoner metal act from Trollhättan traffics in fuzz-drenched riffs and hypnotic, groove-laden repetition. Since 2011, they've built a catalog that reflects the Gothenburg school's homeland.
Stoner metal act from Aviles in Asturias on Spain's northern coast, delivering heavy, fuzz-laden compositions since 2014. Named after the Black Sabbath song, their sound pays homage to the genre's origins with Iberian intensity.
Named with appropriate menace, Lakewood, Ohio's Electric Lucifer play stoner-soaked doom metal with a Sabbath-worshipping dedication — heavy, languid, and thoroughly infernal since 2013.
Part of the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition, this act channels stoner metal with a focus on fuzz-drenched riffs and hypnotic, groove-laden repetition. Formed in 2016, based in Orkney, every recording pushes a little further into uncharted sonic territory.
Laying down tracks since 2003, this Leeds Progressive Metal and Stoner Metal outfit delivers polyrhythmic complexity balanced with emotive melodic passages. Their place within the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Part of Ukraine's fierce and unyielding metal community, this act channels doom metal and stoner metal with a focus on fuzz-drenched riffs and hypnotic, groove-laden repetition. Formed in 2016, based in Cherkasy, the results are heavier and more inventive than the genre tag might suggest.
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