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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)
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Smoke Healer is a stoner and heavy metal band from Hebron, Kentucky, formed in 2015, blending the slow, fuzz-laden grooves of stoner metal with traditional heavy metal riffing and a hard rock foundation.
Smoke Mountain is a stoner and doom metal band from Tallahassee, Florida, formed in 2017, channeling thick, hazy guitar tones and lethargic tempos into heavy, weed-ritual doom with a southern flair.
Smoke the Light is a stoner metal band from Long Island, New York, formed in 2022, building their sound on fuzz-heavy riffs, rolling rhythms, and the hazy, psych-tinged energy characteristic of the stoner metal genre.
Smoke the Sky channel southern and groove metal from Munich, building riff-heavy compositions that draw from the American groove metal tradition. Active since 2018, they bring whiskey-soaked heaviness to the Bavarian capital.
Smokebath is a doom metal band from New York, formed in 2015, crafting slow-motion, heavily distorted doom with a suffocating atmosphere and devotion to the crushing minimalism at the genre's core.
Smokescreen is a progressive heavy and power metal band from Pelham Manor, New York, formed in 2025, combining soaring melodic power metal songwriting with progressive metal's structural complexity and technical ambition.
Smokestack Lightning is a psychedelic stoner and doom metal band from Burlington, formed in 2017, channeling Howlin' Wolf's iconic song title into music steeped in hazy, slow-burning riffs and lysergic desert rock atmosphere.
Smoking Mirror is a death metal band from Fresno, California, formed in 2024, taking their name from the Aztec deity Tezcatlipoca and wielding brutal, technically grounded death metal with an underlying mythological darkness.
Gothenburg's Smoking Snakes play heavy metal from Sweden's metal capital since 2024. Named for the Brazilian WWII expeditionary force's emblem, their military-historical reference channels wartime courage into freshly-minted traditional metal compositions.
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