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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Green Asylum is a stoner/doom metal band from Pulawy in the Lublin Voivodeship, formed in 2014. They deliver heavy stoner doom from the Vistula River city in eastern Poland.
Green Cachalot is a stoner metal band from Volzhsky, Russia, active since 2014 and delivering fuzz-laden, groove-heavy riffs from the Volga region. The project's cetacean-themed name reflects its massive, deep-diving approach to heaviness.
Green Carnation is a gothic/progressive metal band from Kristiansand, active since 2000, having evolved from early death metal origins. Led by Terje Vik Schei, they have become one of Norway's most respected progressive metal acts, with albums like Light of Day, Day of Darkness showcasing their ambitious, genre-transcending approach.
From Elmore, Vermont, Green Chapel bring a pastoral, earthy quality to stoner metal — fuzz-heavy and slow-burning, with an atmosphere that calls to mind ancient woods rather than desert highways. Formed in 2016, they make heavy music with a distinctly northeastern character.
Green Dragon is a sludge/stoner/doom metal band from Torun, active since 2013. They deliver massive, fuzz-drenched stoner doom from the medieval Vistula city.
Formed in Denver, Colorado in 2014, Green Druid play a psychedelic strain of stoner doom that leans into Lovecraftian atmosphere and isolationist weight rather than simple Sabbath worship. Their 2018 debut Ashen Blood on Earache Records established the band's slow-burning, riff-heavy approach, followed by At the Maw of Ruin in 2020, which expanded the sonic palette while preserving the fundamental density. The band approaches the genre with enough self-awareness to actively push beyond its conventions.
Green Entities is a black metal project from Gothenburg, formed in 2024. They deliver black metal from the Swedish city most famous for its death metal tradition.
Green Eternity is a sludge/doom metal band from Malvern in Worcestershire, active since 2009. They channel heavy sludge and doom from the foot of the Malvern Hills.
Green Giant is a stoner/doom metal band from Krakow, active since 2008. They deliver riff-heavy stoner doom from Poland's cultural capital.
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