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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Monolith of Inhumanity (2012)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Emmeloord's Stone in Egypt deal in stoner metal from the Flevoland polder since 2000. Over a quarter-century, this land-reclaimed-from-sea project has built one of the Netherlands' most enduring stoner metal legacies.
Fort Worth stoner rock trio known for dark, spacious psychedelic jamming they call Doom Jazz.
Stone Magnum is a traditional doom metal band from Michigan City, Indiana, formed in 2012, rooted in the classic doom sounds of Black Sabbath and Candlemass with a distinctly Midwestern heaviness.
Stone Marrow is a progressive stoner metal band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed in 2019, combining complex song structures and intricate instrumental passages with heavy, fuzz-laden stoner grooves.
Ambitious Progressive Metal / Shred out of Texas.
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.
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