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Featured Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Dance Devil Dance (Live at Sonic Temple) (2024)
05/15 @ Palladium Times Square, New York City
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Portland, Oregon stoner and doom metal act formed in 2021, stacking thick, fuzz-laden riffs atop slow grooves drawn from the Pacific Northwest's fertile heavy underground.
Slow Green Thing deliver stoner/doom metal and hard rock from Dresden, building hazy, verdant compositions that match their organic name. Active since 2014, they bring psychedelic heaviness to Saxony's Elbe Valley.
Brooklyn stoner and doom metal band formed in 2017, blending lumbering riff work with a heavy psychedelic undercurrent that draws on New York City's diverse heavy rock tradition.
San Francisco psychedelic doom metal band formed in 2021, weaving extended lysergic textures into slow, crushing compositions rooted in the Bay Area's long history of heavy and experimental music.
Chicago's Slow Mass craft melancholy, dynamic emo and post-punk characterized by two strong vocal voices winding through dramatic shifts between quiet introspection and cathartic release. Their sound draws from the rich tradition of Chicago's emo and indie rock lineage, combining the emotional intensity of Midwestern emo with post-punk's angular textures. Slow Mass represent a thoughtful, emotionally resonant corner of the city's ongoing emo revival.
Cleveland, Ohio psychedelic doom and post-metal band formed in 2023, constructing expansive, atmosphere-heavy arrangements that move between meditative drone and crushing heaviness.
Santa Paula, California band formed in 2019 that merges the aggression of death metal with metalcore structure, delivering a hard-hitting sound from the Ventura County underground.
Slowburn deliver heavy metal from Madrid, channeling the slow-building intensity their name describes through powerful compositions. Formed in 2020, they bring gradually intensifying metal to the Spanish capital.
Slowenya channel sludge and doom metal from Turku, building heavy, deliberate compositions from southwestern Finland. Formed in 2021, they bring Slovenian-named slowness to the Finnish doom/sludge scene.
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