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Featured Album
People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Among the Shadows (2024)
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Uppsala's Stone Brigade play heavy metal from Sweden's ecclesiastical capital since 2019. Their lithic-military name and university-city origins channel the disciplined weight of stone soldiers into traditional metal compositions.
Stone Cadaver channel stoner metal and rock from Aarhus, building riff-heavy compositions with the fossilized heaviness their geological name suggests. Active since 2014, they bring petrified groove to the Jutland stoner scene.
Denton, Texas black metal band formed in 2020, contributing to the North Texas extreme metal scene with cold, abrasive compositions in the American black metal tradition.
San Francisco heavy metal band formed in 2019, rooted in the classic traditions of the genre and operating within the Bay Area's historically rich metal landscape.
Portland, Maine funeral doom metal band active since 2018, specializing in the genre's characteristically glacial tempos and immense sonic weight, bringing an extreme iteration of doom to New England.
Binghamton, New York thrash and crossover act formed in 2014, fusing the aggression of classic thrash metal with the raw energy of hardcore punk in the upstate New York underground tradition.
Stone Eater is an atmospheric sludge metal band from St. Louis, Missouri, formed in 2016, crafting dense, slow-burning soundscapes that layer oppressive heaviness with an expansive, melancholic atmosphere.
Stone Elk is a stoner/doom metal outfit from Missoula, Montana, formed in 2016, delivering thick, fuzz-drenched riffs and loping tempos rooted in the wide-open terrain of the Mountain West.
Stone Emperor is a Los Angeles stoner metal band formed in 2020, channeling the heavy psych and hard rock traditions of the Southern California underground into walls of distorted, groove-driven sound.
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