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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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Stone Monolith deliver stoner metal from the tiny southwestern Finnish town of Humppila, building massive, monolithic compositions. Emerging in 2025, they bring geological weight to the Kanta-Hame scene.
Houston power trio delivering Sabbath-style doom and savage sludge. Signed to Ripple Music.
Gothenburg's Stone of Duna pair sludge and stoner metal from Sweden's metal capital since 2023. Their Dune-referencing name channels the desert sci-fi mythology of Frank Herbert into compositions of thick, sandworm-heavy fuzz.
Stone of Erech forge folk and black metal from Madrid, drawing their name from Tolkien's Middle-earth mythology. Active since 2015, they bring literary fantasy depth to the Spanish folk/black metal crossover.
Stone of Scone is a black metal act from Kentucky, formed in 2024, named after the ancient Scottish coronation stone, suggesting a project steeped in historical and mythological darkness.
Bergamo's Stone Prophets bring stoner metal to the Lombard hills since 2026. Their oracular name channels prophetic visions through the sacrament of the riff from one of Italy's most elevated cities.
Stone Ram is a death metal band from Grand Junction, Colorado, formed in 2010, bringing punishing, aggressive metal to Colorado's Western Slope with a sound built on heavy riffing and relentless percussion.
Stone Ritual is a sludge/stoner/doom metal band from Redford Charter Township, Michigan, formed in 2015, weaving together the region's industrial heaviness with slow, ceremonial tempos and filthy, feedback-soaked tones.
Stone Ship forge doom metal from Lahti, building ponderous, vessel-like compositions that carry the weight of stone across heavy waters. Active since 2010, they bring maritime doom to the Paijat-Hame scene.
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