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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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Avant-garde black metal band from Drachten in the Netherlands' Friesland province, active since 2019. Their zodiac-themed name accompanies experimental, boundary-pushing black metal from the Dutch north.
Riga progressive/death metal act active since 2020, blending technical ambition with death metal's visceral impact. Latvia's capital has a modest but quality-over-quantity extreme metal output, and this act exemplifies that standard.
Lynchburg, Virginia's Opium Church came together in 2025 under the banner of Appalachian doom hippies — and true to that self-description, they blend stoner and doom metal with the hazy, ritualistic warmth of the Blue Ridge foothills. Heavy, slow, and thoroughly at peace with taking up space.
Athens sludge metal act formed in 2023, dragging tarry, feedback-drenched heaviness from the Greek capital's underground. Their corrosive approach strips sludge to its most abrasive, confrontational essence.
Kazan symphonic gothic metal act active since 2016, layering orchestral drama over gothic metal's dark romanticism. Based in the capital of Tatarstan, their work carries multicultural influences from a city at the crossroads of European and Asian Russia.
Belgian stoner/doom metal band from Mechelen, delivering hazy, riff-drenched heaviness since 2017. Their narcotic name channels the intoxicating, mind-altering character of their stoner doom grooves.
Birmingham's Opium Lord crafts monolithic doom and sludge metal with a psychedelic edge, creating dense, hallucinatory compositions that move at glacial speeds. Their massive tone and hypnotic repetition evoke a drugged-out heaviness reminiscent of Eyehategod and Bongripper.
Czech psychedelic doom/sludge metal band from Prague, delivering mind-expanding heaviness since 2018. Self-described as 'psychedelic sludge from Prague,' their catalog including 'Godskin' and 'Black Veins Ritual' channels narcotic, hallucinatory darkness.
Sludge metal and noise project from Fossano in Italy's Cuneo province, active since 2018. Their substance-themed name frames their corrosive blend of sludge heaviness and noise experimentation.
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