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Austin's Emerald Wolfen channel the city's storied stoner and doom heritage into slow, lysergic riff cycles built for volume and open space — music that feels as much at home in the Texas Hill Country as it does in a sweat-soaked venue.
From the small Maryland town of Easton on the Eastern Shore, Eminent Domain pair stoner fuzz with traditional heavy metal bones, making music that feels grounded in rural disillusionment and amplifier worship.
Colossal Stoner / Doom Metal out of Texas.
Stoner/doom metal and psychedelic rock act from Frankfurt, Germany, building heavy, haze-filled compositions since 2019. Their regal name contrasts with the fuzzy, groove-laden character of their stoner doom sound.
Sludge/stoner metal act from Odense on the Danish island of Funen, delivering heavy, groove-laden compositions since 2014. Their imperious name captures the commanding, oppressive quality of their sludge-laden sound.
Atlanta's Empty Black wallow in the Southern sludge tradition — stoner-thick riffs baked in tar and doom, the kind of slow-burn heaviness the city's heavy underground has perfected.
Stoner and post-metal act from Trutnov in the Bohemian mountains of Czech Republic, crafting hazy, atmospheric heaviness since 2015. Their sound merges the fuzzy warmth of stoner metal with the expansive dynamics of post-metal.
Part of the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition, this act channels doom metal and stoner metal with a focus on fuzz-drenched riffs and hypnotic, groove-laden repetition. Formed in 2005, based in London, every recording pushes a little further into uncharted sonic territory.
Sacramento stoner/doom act whose name is either deeply self-deprecating or perfectly evocative of the hazy, half-lidded tempos they've been delivering since 2017. Sun-baked California riffs slow-cooked until they collapse under their own weight.
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