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Featured Album
Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Featured Grindcore Album
Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Sludge-stoner act from Stockholm, formed in 2021. Chaos Wielder delivers heavy, fuzz-laden grooves from the Swedish capital.
Sludge and stoner metal band from Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England, formed in 2023. They deliver thick, fuzz-laden heaviness.
Doom-stoner band from Novi Sad, Serbia's second-largest city, formed in 2017. Cheap Moonshine delivers lumbering, fuzz-laden grooves from the Vojvodina capital.
Doom and stoner metal band from Finland, formed in 2024. They deliver thick, fuzz-laden doom grooves rooted in the stoner tradition.
Doom and stoner metal band from Lahti, Finland, active since 2011. They craft heavy, slow-burning stoner-doom from the Finnish lake district.
Doom-stoner band from Groningen in the northern Netherlands, active since 2016. Chief of Smoke delivers lumbering, haze-drenched heaviness from the country's northernmost major city.
Stoner metal band from Portugalete in the Basque Country, Spain, active since 2010. They deliver thick, fuzz-drenched stoner riffs from the industrial Nervion estuary.
Stoner metal band from Bologna, formed in 2014. Choriachi delivers heavy, groove-laden stoner riffs from the heart of Emilia-Romagna.
Stoner metal band from Genoa, active since 2012. Christopher Walken — cheekily named after the Hollywood actor — delivers heavy, fuzzed-out stoner grooves from the Ligurian coast.
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