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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
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Stoner/doom metal act from Leon in northwestern Spain, delivering heavy, sun-baked compositions since 2013. Their Spanish name, meaning "The Horned One," evokes pagan imagery that enriches their stoner doom aesthetic.
Bowling Green, Kentucky's El Astronauta has been launching stoner metal salvos since 2020, wrapping heavy desert-rock riffage in cosmic ambition. The name hints at the spacey, weightless feel the band chases alongside its considerable heft.
Heavy metal and hard rock act from Muskiz in the Basque Country, Spain, formed in 2023. Their name, meaning "The Year of the Caiman" in Spanish, adds a reptilian menace to their classic metal and rock approach.
Ventura, California's El Barbaro occupies the brutal intersection of doom, sludge, and hardcore, a combination the band has been weaponizing since 2012. Crushing tempos and hardcore aggression collide with the genre's suffocating low-end weight.
Nässjö's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this heavy metal and stoner metal unit is among them — wielding wah-soaked leads and bass-heavy grooves in the tradition of Kyuss and Sleep. Uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Sludge metal band from Bristol, England formed in 2020. They deliver crushing, down-tuned sludge from one of England's heaviest music cities.
On the warpath since 2013, this Uden/Volkel Death Metal and Melodic Death Metal outfit delivers guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Their place within Holland's dense concentration of metal talent speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Deathcore outfit from Liège, Belgium, fusing death metal, hardcore, and thrash elements since 2010. Their debut "Clinical Life - Chemical Lie" was recorded at Jackstudio in Chabrehez and packs ten tracks of punishing aggression into a concise twenty-eight minutes.
Clearwater, Florida's El Coyote has been delivering sun-baked stoner metal since 2018, an odd but fitting home for a genre rooted in desert heat. Fuzzed-out riffs and a loping heaviness run through their sound.
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